Multiple .Mac accounts

HI, Does anyone know how to use iWeb from one computer with multiple .Mac accounts? I want to publish using two different account names, but I don't know if I am able.
Thanks for any help

Will is correct. The account published to is determined by the details provided in the .Mac item in System Preferences. You could always temporarily change the account details there, but you always run the risk of forgetting to switch back again. Will's suggestion of using a separate user whose .Mac preferences are set to the other account is definitely the way to go. With Fast User Switching it's an absolute snip to use.
You'll need to maintain separate Domain files anyway if you want the sites to be independent. Using separate users does this for you automatically.
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Hello all,
I am trying to have multiple .Mac accounts to publish independent iWeb websites on unique domains (the apple iweb provided ones) but it appears I can only have one .Mac account on my computer's network user to do the easy one click Publish button to.
I don't want to use multiple user accounts on my computer as I'd like to have access to all my photos, music, videos and everything else and easily do so without logging out from my main account.
What am I missing?
Many thanks,
Michael

The only safe and easy method is multiple user accounts.
You can easily store your iPhoto and music Libraries on an external drive and share them between accounts.

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can i only sync to the master account??? if so, this really ***** because i have multiple email addresses for various tasks (business / personal / junk). i'm really gonna be bummed.
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...c

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There are three of us in the household, all with our own .mac accounts (created off of one master account) and our own usernames on this computer. I have set up multiple email accounts and am having trouble getting those accounts organized into Mail. Can I set it up such that each user can access his/her email when logged into his/her respective area on this mac? For example, I want to be able to log in as myself and read my email, then let my wife log into her area and read her email. I have tried and really messed it up. We can read mail but not send it. When i try to send a message pops up informing me that "cannot send message using the server (server name here). Try again later."

Can I set it up such that each user can access his/her email when
logged into his/her respective area on this mac? For example, I want
to be able to log in as myself and read my email, then let my wife log
into her area and read her email.
Yes and this is how it should be done with each user's email account only created in Mail under their computer login account so each user's email along with all other data is kept separate and protected in their own home folder/directory. Of course this only works when disabling automatic login.
Who is your ISP used for connecting to the internet and is each user/family member also accessing an email account that is provided by your ISP?
Something to try first and this must be done with the .Mac SMTP server in Mail for each user's login account.
Go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts and under the Account Information tab for the .Mac account preferences at the SMTP server selection, select the Server Settings button below.
Enter 587 in place of 25 in the Server Port field and when finished, select OK to save the changed setting.

IWeb with multiple .Mac account

Hi,
I have 2 .Mac account (one for personal, and another one for business use). I have one MacBookPro
I want to use iWeb developing 2 sites for my 2 .Mac account.
What I usually do is to log in to my personal .Mac account, then make both sites (personal and business) the pages with iWeb.
But the problem is that both sites I did in iWeb will get published to my personal account. Then it is wasting space on my idisk.
Then I would have to publish everything to a folder and then copy only the pages of my business site into my business .Mac account.
I wish there is an easier way.
What would be the best way of doing this? (with no pain!)
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hi viravadee
you can publish to 2 .mac accounts very easily.
before you want to publish, close iweb,
go under system preferences,
then under .Mac settings change the username and the
password. re-open iWeb and publish
- BUT when, say you want to publish your
office-site, make sure it is the top-page (just drag
and drop the web-site to the top(in the sidebar
under iWeb) because this tells the index to get
linked to the first web-site. For your home adress,
you do it the opposite way, your personal page goes
first, and don't forget to change the username in
the system preferences again.
i guess that is the easiest way to publish to 2
accounts.
and it will allways publish everything, you will have
to delete the other site from the iDisk
Woah. I don't know if I would recommend this method. Why publish everything every time if you don't need to?
viravadee, try this:
1. Make two user accounts on your machine and set up each account for a different .mac account
2. Separate your domain file into two separate domain files, each with one site
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http://web.mac.com/mark8heaton/iWeb/DomainSeparation
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After several attemps, I think that the best soluce is to work with several HD or several partitions on the internl HD.
Store the documents on a volume which is not the startup one and every user will be able to work with them.
If you own a single HD and if the machine is intet inside, you may create a partition on the fly.
If the machine is not intel inside and have a single disk, partitionning will require a preliminary backup.
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restore anything on this partition
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For years, I've had multiple .mac accounts. I've only had one listed as my official .mac account while the others I sent up in Mail as IMAP accounts. This has worked wonderfully this entire time.
BUT NOW, none of my .mac accounts are sending! I've tried changing the port to 587. I've tried deleting the accounts and recreating them. I've tried all that I can think of. Everytime I try to send I get a popup window asking for my password. I type in my password and it is rejected. I know that it is the correct password because I can login to apple's .mac site and send just fine with the same password. I also know that it is not my ISP. I've connected to the Internet from multiple locations (home, work, friends houses, etc.) and still have the same problem (when I could send from all of these places a week ago). What gives? Can anyone help?
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Are you also accessing an email account and SMTP server provided by your ISP with the Mail.app?
If so, are you able to send messages with this account?
If yes, select/use your ISP's SMTP server to send messages with your .Mac accounts which is invisible to all recipients.
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Publishing to Mulitple .mac accounts

Hi. I have multiple .Mac accounts and am currently working on two websites in iWeb. The problem I'm having is getting the 2nd website to post to another .Mac account via iWebs "publish" functionality. They both post under the same .Mac account user URL site. Is there away to do this so each site posts to the proper .Mac accounts website?
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-J

James,
I think your understanding of the matter is correct. But I would suggest that the cleanest and most elegant option is probably the second method which involves creating a second system user account for the second .Mac account. Then the only thing you would need to do is to log into the right account in OS X to publish to each .Mac account.
Changing the .Mac preferences back and forth is cumbersome and still doesn't do away with the problem of having both sites under the same Domain file. With separate system accounts, each .Mac account will have its own Domain file which you will not have to keep track of. Changing .Mac preferences back and forth also affects other things that you might use, like iChat or syncing to your iDisk. Very messy.
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Hi and tnxs for reading.
I notice there is a post with the same subject but the core is different.
I just got an iOS device for mu job with a personal (company related) apple id and iCloud mail account.
I got my new personal apple.id and pwd.
I would like to access this email account via my Mac as-well. For this reason I added this iCloud on my Mac by using Add Account on Mail.
After having inserted my new applied and pwd I got it verified, however the Mail box for this account is not ticked. If I tick it I am prompted to write an iCloud account name @iCloud.com , with the warning that when created it cannot be modified. At this point I stopped the process.
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It just dawned on me that if someone is surfing the internet on the alt box, they might need their favs over there... although I'm the only user w/an extensive favs list. Truth be told, my network is a home business network. So far, the only other users on the main Mac are my kids... the network serves for home biz/personal tasks. One of my kids is a college student who uses the computer for all basic tasks plus web design & Photoshopping. Point is, I'm just looking for the best, simple solution.

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x

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how do i set up multiple iCloud accounts on the same mac?

Interesting - I was sure I'd seen a note somewhere that it was only Mail, but this article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4020
does say
Your secondary iCloud accounts can be set up and viewed in Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars on your iOS device, or Apple () menu > System Preferences > Mail, Contacts, Calendars on OS X Lion. You may choose to do this if you have a second iCloud account and need to access its Mail, Contacts, or Calendar data.
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Multiple Macs with multiple user accounts

I have a Mac computer connected to airport and use Time Machine for backups. This works well.
I have now purchased a second Mac and would like to include this second Mac so that I can move between Macs and work. There does not appear to be any mechanism to allow this.

After searching the web and the discussion here, here's my minimal impact solution for multiple Macs with multiple users in a household:
1) Set up Mac1 for myself only
2) Set up Mac2 for the wife and kid
3) Set up each Mac to backup to the Airport base station using Time Machine (this would create two separate backups on the Airport base station's drive, which from what I've read has its own problems)
4) On Mac1 setup "empty user accounts" for the wife and kid. These will not have any files in them - just an access mechanism. If they want to access their files, they can use Time Machine's "The Browse Other Backup Disks Option" to get their file from Mac2, work on it and then drop it in the Shared Folder. Next time they are on Mac2, remember to copy the updated/created file from the Shared Folder into their Mac2 user account. If possible, get Time Machine to not backup the "empty user accounts".
5) Do the same for me on Mac2.
Not the most elegant solution, but until Apple get off their backside and make this seamless, I can't think of anything else :-( .
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