My mac won't automatically log on to air port extreme

my imac wont log on to airport extreme automatically

Open Startup Disk preferences. Be sure your startup disk is selected. If not select it then click on Restart. At the chime press and hold down the SHIFT key which will force a Safe Mode startup. This takes quite a bit longer than the normal startup. After it has completed restart the computer normally. See if this helps. If not, then do the following:
Reinstalling Lion/Mountain Lion Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

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Can you explain what your mean by "Log on to airport extreme" ?
If you just want to join the network so you can surf the Internet, get mail, etc., you would join the network just like you would with any type of Windows computer.
If you mean how to log onto the airport extreme so you can change the settings and administer the network, then you would need Airport Utility for Windows...
See this Apple download:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1391

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Hello,
At home I have installed, since many years, a Wi-Fi network using an Air Port Extreme Base station. This works fine with different computers. Now I have “recovered” an older Mac from my office, which works with a dual PowerPC G5 and OS 10.5.8. It seems that this machine is not able to work with a wireless network (no Air Port antenna). I would really appreciate to connect this machine to the Internet. Obviously one possibility is to draw several meters of Ethernet cable through the apartment … *Here is my question: is it possible to use Air Port Express for connecting my Mac with PowerPC G5 to my normal Wi-Fi network (and to Internet)? In other words: the PowerPC G5 is connected to the Air Port Express via a short Ethernet cable and has then access to my Wi-Fi network?* Thanks in advance and all the best for the New Year.
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Have to use password log-in, can't get automatic to work.
Console log reads:
loginwindow[159] FSResolveAliasWithMountFlags returned err = -43
I'm guessing some file or alias is missing. How would I replace it.
System preferences are set to do the automatic log-in.
Have done system reinstall & Disk utilitiy permission repair. I think I'm missing something obvious but need help.
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I had this same problem on both a PBG412 and a G4, running Tiger 10.4.5 and .6
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Then CLICK THE LOCK to prevent further changes
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I can also manually sleep without issue, so I'm scratching my head a little over what could be happening.
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Colin,
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Recently while on vacation, my son logged into a public computer on his ichat. Unfortuantely, it was clicked as automatic log in.
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hI,
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Mac won't go past the white screen and apple logo

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Take each of these steps that you haven't already tried. Stop when the problem is resolved.
Step 1
The first step in dealing with a boot failure is to secure your data. If you want to preserve the contents of the startup drive, and you don't already have at least one current backup, you must try to back up now, before you do anything else. It may or may not be possible. If you don't care about the data that has changed since your last backup, you can skip this step.
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Step 2
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When you see the gray Apple logo, release the shift key.
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Step 4
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Step 5
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Step 7
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Step 8
If you get this far, you're probably dealing with a hardware fault. Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store to have the machine tested.

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