I can't login on my Mac I am the administrator. Other users can log in.
I Can not login to my mac desktop. I am the administrator. Other user can log in
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Yes. I can login with a test user. And any other network user can login as well to this particular mac. Actually the mac has bootcamp and boots into either mac or windows. The same user entering the same login username and password can login into the windows side, but not the mac side.
I had this same issue last semester in another classroom, another mac and a different teacher. This summer I reformatted and imaged that mac and I asked that teacher to login today to that reimagened mac and she had no problem today doing so. -
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System Preferences>Network- Unlock padlock. Highlight Airport. Network Name-select your name. Click on the Advanced button. Airport/Preferred Networks-delete all that is not your network.
Place a check mark next to "Remember networks this computer has joined." Click the OK button and lock the padlock. Restart your computer. -
My mac pro won't allow guest users to log in.
How do you allow guest users in a mac pro? Keeps asking for a password?
This issue is sometimes or always the result of transferring the Guest account from another system in Migration or Setup Assistant. See the discussions linked below.
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Or would it be best to back the data I really need from the old PC onto an external HD and then copy it over to the new Mac from the external HD?
Looking for advice on how to best go about this. On the old PC I had multiple profiles and it was awkward. On the new Mac I just want a single profile for the primary user and both users will just share the same user profile. I wasn't sure if the Migration Assistant only let you recreate entire profiles or if there was a way to just import data from the old PC's primary profile into the new Mac's new primary profile with some setting adjustment.
Data would be docs, pics, bookmarks, music. Fairly basic.
Thanks for any and all advice,
-Crosscourier.Look in the /Users/ folder.
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Getting the MAC address of the iPhone
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Linfield CollegeYou can get the MAC address for your iPhone at Settings > General > About > Wi-Fi address.
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Mysterious "Other" User at Login Window????
Hi folks,
Ive just updated my old iMac G3 to Tiger 10.4.3 (from OS9) and connected it to my Powermac G5 (10.4.3) via a network cable. The thing is for some reason when the iMac boots up the login window shows the correct user (my wife) but also shows another icon underneath called "other" I recognize the icon (it's the shilhouetted guy with the blue background, Admin?) but my wife's is the only account on the machine. If i type her details in the "other" user it logs in as her the same as if i login with her icon? What is this and how can i get rid of it?
Thanks.I seem to remember this "Other" as an option in Jaguar or Panther, but I can't seem to find it in Tiger. Have you enabled the root user? That's usually what this "Other" user was for — it presented the Name and Password fields instead of a list of users so you could type in "root" and the root password to log in as root. (If you don't know what root is, don't worry about it.)
To get rid of it, I would try switching some of the Login Options in the Accounts preference pane. Specifically, pick the option that says Display login window as Name and password instead of List of users. Log out, see if that sticks, log back in, switch back to List of users. Log out, see if it's fixed. That's definitely the first thing I would try. -
Good news! Removing "other user" from login screen.
I got a brand new macbook pro days ago. All are amazing, except the annoying "other user" on the login screen. I have googled and tried every possible solution such as disabling root user, changing user's name, deleting and etc.
Here is the 100% successful solution.
http://www.theseoinfo.com/how-to-remove-guest-user-account-from-login-screen-in- mac-os-x-10-7-2-lion/1673/
Hope this help you all guys.Google for remove guest user OS X and be enlightened. Alternatively,
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When i login to my mac, it opens iTunes, Skype and AIM. I've tried deleting these from the login items, but they are not on the list. Can anyone help?
babowa wrote:
If you do not lock that folder immediately after deleting all the contents, it will simply populate again (Resume - a "feature" in Lion). You do that by doing a Get Info (highlight folder and press Command + I keys), unlock the lock at the bottom, enter your admin password, then check the box to lock the folder. lock the lock and you're done.
Yes, that is correct. The alternative is to quit all applications prior to logging out. Lion will then have a chance to remove the saved states.
babowa also wrote:
And, for the OP:
It has also been a regular feature of Mac OS to automatically open any window that was open at shutdown. To avoit that behavior, simply close any Finder windows and properly quit applications by closing their window and using Command + Q (or File >Quit).
This was true only for the Finder. Prior to Lion, no other apps would launch unless they were included in the Login Items for the account. And the OS would not restore windows for other apps.
A very small number of apps (TextWrangler is an example) implemented this capability prior to Lion. They could restore previously opened windows. But that is an application feature, and can be controlled by the application's preferences. Lion implements it at the system level, and users have virtually no control on a per application basis. -
OS X Lion: Suddenly can't login to your Mac? [SOLVED]
I went to make some lunch, and left my Mac running. In the meantime it went into sleep. When I got back, it prompted me with my login password to wake it from sleep.
I entered it about 100 times, very painstaikingly and carefully, but it wouldn't log me in! I did not change my password, and I was certain it was right... but it just wouldn't work. It kept shaking, telling me the password isn't right! I thought I'll have to hack my own computer, and lose my files after upgrading to Lion, but stumbled accross a solution!
SOLUTION: http://baumdesign.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/macos-x-lion-cannot-login-after-autom atic-sleep/
It turns out that I had changed my keyboards input source to German, where the z and y have switched places. The link explains why this happens, and how to prevent it from happening again.
Just wanted to share with you all.I wouldn't trust a NAS with my only backup, but I leave that to you. From now on I'll assume that your data is safe, no matter what happens. If that assumption is wrong, disaster may be coming.
The next thing to do is to locate the FileVault disk image. Log in to an administrator account that works. Launch the Terminal application by entering the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Drag or copy -- do not type -- the following line into the window:
user=
Now type the short name of the user acount that you can't log into. It should be one word with no spaces. Press return. Enter the following command in the same way (no typing):
sudo ls -l /Users/{,.}$user/$user.sparsebundle
You'll be prompted for your password, which won't be dislplayed when you type it. That's your own login password, not the other user's. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. Post any lines of output that appear below what you entered, not including the warning. -
My Hard Disk setting has been changed into no access for everyone and i can't open my mac. please tell me how can i login as an admin to change the setting cause i have a lot of date in my hard drive.
Read and follow Apple Support Communities contributor Niel's User Tip: kmosx: I accidentally set a disk's permissions to No Access
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Can you login with a pc into open directory like you login with a mac into open directory?
Can you login with a pc into open directory like you login with a mac into open directory.
AustinRockes16,
Have you considered posting your question on a Windows forum, asking on a general iMac forum where most users use OS X probably may not yield the results you are looking for. -
Two users can't login to Bonjour, but other users can
All the Macs in my house are set to log into iChat on startup, which creates a defacto messaging network around the house. Quite handy. But now, on one particular machine (a G5 iMac iSight) two users can't seem to log into Bonjour, although on the same machine all the other users can.
I've looked at some other posts on this site, and have checked that Address Book shows 'me' as correct for both users. The Firewall is not set to Essential Services Only, and there is no limit on the bandwidth. The Quicktime streaming setting is set to 1.5 mbps.
In iChat, when using one of the two troublesome logins on the G5, when I click cmd-2 to bring up the Bonjour list, it says Bonjour is not enabled, and gives a click button to enable it. But clicking it does nothing - no effect whatsoever.
When those two same users use the external Buddy List (and an AIM screen name) their iChat works fine.Hi Nick,
This is what I have found out.
It relates more to Shares shown in the Finder but may offer clues.
I have G4 Tower that has been upgraded from Jaguar actually, to Panther, Tiger and Finally Leopard.
Along the way I bought a MacBook Pro. (Now on Snow Leopard)
At this Point I changed the G4's Computer name to represent it was the G4 and called the MacBook Pro "MacBook Pro" rather than my first Admin Account name (otherwise both Computer names and Short names would have been the same)
I also changed the Leopard's My Card in the Address Book to give it a different Name in iChat.
Somewhere during this process the G4 ended up with a Ralph-G4.local ID, a computer's name of Ralph Johns's Computer, a Address Book ID of Ralph G4 and the short name of ralphjohns
The MacBook Pro has MacBook Pro as the Computer name and .local name and the short name is alsoralphjohns. The Address Book My Card is my full name.
Now in discussion with a Level 4 poster who knows more about this than I do I found out that in Leopard if File Sharing is Off the Bonjour ID is still supposed to show in the Snow Leopard Shares.
However if it is ON whether you use AFP or SMB or Both it is only supposed to appear once and mine was appearing twice.
Changing the Computer name to something else seemed to confuse things (I could not Log on to share from Either Computer)
Changing the name back resolved that but changed the .local ID on the G4 as well.
(Changing the .local name back to what it was before seems to have had now effect now.)
However the G4 now only shows once in the MacBook Pro Shares.
I do not think the Upgrades are the distinguishing feature more my poor attempts at making sure the new (then) MacBook Pro had a different ID than the G4.
I have been able to Bonjour Video and send files as well as see the Other Computer in the Bonjour Buddy lists.
So in summary.
The Address Book My Cards have to be Different.
Sometimes changing the Computer name or the .local name does seem to cause issues in File Sharing - which may have some influence on Bonjour as a whole.
Whilst my G4 was showing up in the MacBook Pro as two Shares it was listing the .local name and the Computer's Name as shown in Sharing which were different.
It maybe this if it is happening for this computer that may give clues.
7:59 PM Thursday; October 15, 2009
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I am trying to restore my Mac OS after a hard drive failure and my password is no longer recognized, however I can log in by double clicking on the Lion Icon? How can I reset my password
First, make sure caps lock is not on.
Another reason why your password might not be recognized is that the keyboard layout (input source) has been switched without your realizing it. At the login screen, you can cycle through the available layouts by pressing the key combinationcommand-space or command-option-space. See this support article.
If the user account is associated with an Apple ID, and you know the Apple ID password, then maybe the Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password.
Otherwise*, boot into Recovery mode. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. In the window that opens, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window opens. Close the Terminal window to get it out of the way.
Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Follow the prompts to reset the password. It's safest to choose a password that includes only the characters a-z, A-Z, and 0-9.
Select
▹ Restart
from the menu bar.
You should now be able to log in with the new password, but your Keychain will be reset (empty.) If you've forgotten the Keychain password (which is ordinarily the same as your login password), there's no way to recover it.
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When trying to log into face time I get the registering device does not have appropriate credentials after I sign in, I have OSX 10.8.4 on my Mac Pro. I can log into face time without a problem using my IPAD.>
Please take each of the following steps that you haven't already tried, until the issue is reolved. If there's no resolution after Step 3, post your results.
Step 1
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Step 2
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Step 3
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Note: If FileVault is enabled on some models, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to boot and run than normal, and some things won’t work at all, including sound output and Wi-Fi on certain iMacs. The next normal boot may also be somewhat slow.
The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
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