I bought a Mac on craigslist and it was working fine I shut it off and brought it home. Turned it back on and the only account I could access was the guest. I called it's not stolen but I don't know how to restore or reset the passwords i have no disk?

I don't know what to do??

Contact the seller to obtain the needed discs that should have been included. Otherwise, if it's an Intel model you can buy Snow Leopard at an Apple store. If not there's this option:
You can contact Apple Store Customer Service at 1-800-692-7753 and purchase replacement discs.

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Dear Katty,
Thank you very much for your answer! I have 2 Apple ID, and I have tried both of them and the problem continues. I founf several peolpe with the same problem in apple communities foruns and that really seems that there is some problem. I addded the links for 2 of those discussions.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3374419?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16628399#16628399
Do you have an idea of how can I solve this problem?
Thank you very much again.
Best regards,
Alfonso

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http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=10.6+snow+leopard&_sacat=0&_odkw=mac+os+10.6 &_osacat=0
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