Make mobile account with admin permissions without administrator INFO...

How do you bypass the admin permissions with mobile account? How do you make mobile account unlock things? You do you do the secret and rare system administrator login screen, where it says up on the top System Administrator, where nothing would be there? How to force your computer to go to single user mode, not command s or apple s, because that doesn't work for me? How do enable isight -camera without no admin password, no terminal? Is there extension for mac so that it will run and unlock things or open programs without administrator permissions? I need something that will UNLOCK MY macbook, please help. Where can I download password reset.APP for free that comes in the mac os x leopard disc? Thanks for the help...

Why don't you just use your OS X install disc? It has a password reset utility on it.

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Where are you located?
Just go and buy an iTunes gift card at any store in your country.
Then follow all the steps you did, but when it asks you for the credit card number, there shoujld be a GIFT CARD option which will let you load your account witht eh funds form the gift card without providing a credit/debit card #.

Best practice converting local laptop accounts to Mobile Accounts with PHD

Hi,
what is the best practice to convert local laptop users (with different UIDs than their network account) to mobile accounts? Especially when the local dir should not be synced in whole (just Documents, Library). Client and server are 10.5, network accounts are on NFS.
I tried creating the mobile account with a minimal network directory (Library etc. ) and then move the original folders into place, but this didn't work out (the sync info was overwritte somewhere ..)
Christian

I think your best bet is to copy the home folder off the laptop to the user share on the server. Then with WGM create the same user and the apply all permissions of the network user to the copied folder.
Once you have that create your settings for the PHD and then go to the laptop. There you will setup the laptop and bind it to the directory, have that user login (might want to do this on a lan, not airport) and then it will move all the data across to that laptop, and since the network user (same as the local) owns that folder everything should work. If the password is the same then OS X should fix the login and keychain password, so saved forms or email password would show up.
I did this same thing for 20 OS 10.4 client laptops. Took me a while to get all of this in place but will spare you the running around...
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Deleted items reappear on mobile account with syncing?

On a mobile account with syncing, deleted items will reappear after syncing. One can manually do a full sync. Then delete stuff. Then do a full manual sync again and the deleted items are back.
This is on Leopard 10.5.6 client and Leopard 10.5.6 server.
Open to ideas one what I ought to look at.
Best Wishes,
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Paul,
I'm happy I'm not alone (sorry..)
I have exactly the same problem, although I'm using Linux server, not OSX.
It all worked nicely until 10.5.6 upgrade, after that I'm having lots of home sync problems, including:
1. locally deleted items re-appear after sync
2. a lot of sync conflicts, specially when sync cannot resolve latest file or directory version between mobile and network copy (and mobile copy will be always the latest one)
3. huge syncs even if no data has been modified, ie:
I'm syncing all on login and logout, background sync is disabled.
I do login then straight away logout, so practically no data has been modified, but the sync may show me tens of GB being transferred.
Now, this is weird: I've done tests on a freshly created mobile account, with approx 50MB of data. Basically I've logged in and out repeatedly, sometimes modifying small files. Some of the syncs showed me transfer of 60MB!!! That's 10MB more than the size of the home directory!
I've looked through release notes for 10.5.6 and some sync issues were 'fixed'. I'm wondering if other ones were introduced...
As I've said, it all worked perfectly until the latest update - I have many machines behaving in the same, bad way.
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How do you setup a user mobile account, with the home directory stored locally and not synced to the server?

I want to be able to setup a user mobile account, with the home directory stored locally and not synced to the server. What is the best way to do this? I am running Server 10.6 with 10.6 clients. Open Directory will be used to authenticate and manage preferences. Also, this one account will be used simultaneosly in a computer lab setting, so files will be stored locally in the client, hence the need to NOT sync to the server. Any Ideas?

currofelix wrote:
So what does WGM Look like in the Home Tab? afp://servername.domainname/Users? or afp://Users?
The attached screen shots should help you:
You will only have to do this step once. Obviously you want to use the user's shortname here.
Then, you will see this as an option in WGM:

Active Directory user passwords on mobile account with File Vault

Hi all,
I enabled file vault when I moved to my MacBook Pro. I joined the computer to the domain (after enabling file vault), and logged in with my domain account, creating a managed, mobile account so that I could use the computer when not connected to the domain.
Active Directory has forced a change in my password for the domain account but I cannot get the password on the Mac to change the password and sync with the domain.
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Make OD accounts Local Admin!!!

Wondering if anyone might know how to do this if possible. Would like to take
a OD network account and give that user admin privileges on a particular station.
This is possible on the Windows side of the house, but i don't see a way to do
it on the Mac side. The only thing i can see is to make an account an Open Directory administrator which is not something i want to do.
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Hi
Launch WorkGroup Manager and create a new Computer List. Don’t be tempted to use the default ones, call it something meaningful. Click the diaresis button (the one with 3 dots) and search for the client you are interested in, it should show itself in the discovery window. If you have given the client a unique name in the Sharing Preferences Pane then that should display itself making it easier for you to pinpoint the client. You could also add the desired client’s MAC address manually (which is actually a better way to do it). You can do this a number of ways but if you are sitting at the server and you know the client’s IP address just ping it using terminal. Let it ping a few times and then stop the ping with control+c, then issue the arp -a command. The resulting return will show you the MAC address against the IP address.
One you have added the client to the computer list you can select Access and restrict or allow access by Group. You get two options: "All Groups can use the computer" and "Restrict to groups below". Add a group that is populated with users that you want to be able to use that client. If you create a local admin account with the same name and password as exists in the LDAP node that should tie it up even further.
Its possible that this will work.
Tony

Mobile account with FileVault

We have a Leopard XServe 10.5.8 and a Client running Snow Leopard 10.6.2. I have just instituted via WGM the policy to create a mobile account on login and to protect the home folder with FileVault. The error I am getting is "Unable to Create mobile account" "Your FileVault home can't be created because a folder with the same name already exists" What am I doing wrong? Is this not possible? Do I need to do it is phases?

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Best way to handle mobile accounts with large itunes/photo libraries

What is the best way to handle mobile accounts, but not syncing itunes/photos libraries?
I have a time capsule so I can move itunes and photos libraries for each user if need be.
Thanks!

Hi,
I've done a great deal of work with mobile accounts in Snow Leopard and I'm now having a "play" with Lion. To be honest you have to sit down and think about why you need mobile accounts.
If your user only uses one computer then your safer having a local account backed up by a network Time Machine, this avoids the many many woes that the Servers FileSyncAgent brings to the table.
If your users are going to be accessing multiple computers on the network and leaving the network then a mobile account is good for providing a uniform user experience and access to files etc. However, your users will have to make a choice as to whether they want their iPhoto libraries on one Local machine (backed up by Time Machine) or whether they want their library to be hosted on the server and not part of the Mobile Home Sync schedule (adding ~/Pictures to the excluded items on the home sync settings).
With the latter, users will be able to access their iPhoto libraries on any computer when they are within the network (as it's accessed from the users server home folder).
With the first option the user would have their iPhoto library on one computer (say the laptop they used the most) but then would not be able to access it from other computers they log on to.
iPhoto libraries are a pain, and I'm working hard to come up with a workaround. If your users moved over to using Apeture then you could include the aperture library as part of the home sync thanks to Deeport (http://deepport.net/archives/os-x-portable-home-directories-and-syncing-flaw-wit h-bundles/)
He does suggest that the same would work with IPhoto libraries - but it doesn't for a number of mysterious reasons regarding how the OS recognizes thie iPhoto bundle (it does so differently compared to Apeture).
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You need to be in a country to use its store, so you can't buy content from the French store unless you are in France with a France billing address on your account. You can try requesting that the music be added to the Canadian store, but unless the record company/rights-holder agrees to it then Appl won't be able to sell it there : http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html
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I basically have the same question as this post:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=696367
I have set up Tiger workstations to authenticate to AD, I am forcing a local home dir. Everything works great. I want to do the same thing for Tiger laptop users with mobile accounts. The problem is that OS X creates a second home directory outside of /Users based on attributes from my AD schema. Just like with the non-mobile users, I want to ignore all home dir attributes from AD and just use the user's home dir that is in /Users. So the question is, how can you use a mobile account and force a local home dir with Apple's AD plugin??????

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Apple's AD plugin reads these unix attributes from AD and thinks it knows what to do but ends up causing more problems then if there were no unix attributes at all.
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Sync iphone with new macbook without erasing info - don´t have backup

Hello everybody,
although I have googeled and searched in this forum I couldn´t quite find the exact answer to my problem:
Unfortunately, a few weeks ago my Windows PC went kaput. Fortunately, I bought a new Macbook Pro which is awesome.
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I have just upgraded itunes to 7.0 on my Win XP professional machine.
If I am logged in as administrator, iTunes runs without problem.
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"itunes cannot run because one of its required files are missing. Please reinstall itunes."
Re-installing (that is repairing) itunes as user, does not help.
My previous itunes version was 6.0 and I had no problems.
Any ideas?

mog67, similar things to that can sometimes happen if the other user accounts don't have the right permissions on the QuickTime keys in your Registry.
the stejskal family pioneered the treatment for us:
the trick for me was getting up the nerve to "fiddle" with the registry...the reason why the girls could not get access to iTunes/QT was down to permission...once I got one going I went back in to HKEY-MACHINE\SOFTWARE\apple computer, inc\Quicktime...click to highlight go to edit, permission and added the missing girls to the list of who is allowed...made sure they have full permission..apply, ok and "bobs your uncle" all is now well in stejskal home.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=810602#810602
so perhaps check to see if your user account has permissions on those keys.

How can I purschase music in the France itunes store if my account is in Canada, Can I make two accounts with the same billing information ?

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