OSX asking for Airport password?

This a new one on me. MBP, G3 iMac and Pismo all use a 1st gen Airport Extreme connected to a Linksys Router. Bad connection with linksys; router setup pages not fully rendering. Switched over to ethernet cable; same situation. Reset firmware in Linksys; everything ok, or so I thought.
Pismo and iMac connecting to Airport Extreme without a problem. MBP keeps popping up a window that states: 'OSX requests a password'. Entering correct system password numerous times fails to turn on Airport in MBP. None of my machines have ever popped up that window asking for a password. Repaired Permissions, no change.
MBP connected by ethernet cable for the moment.

Went over to MBP/wireless dicussion. Reset PRAM and removed main battery for several minutes. Airport came on automatically as before - everything seems to be working correctly.

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What OS are you running.. this is usually only a problem in Mavericks.
If so I recommend you mount the hard disk manually..
Use Go, Connect to server.
Type in the IP address if static.. eg
AFP://10.0.1.1
Or the name.. but you will have issues unless the name is short, no spaces and pure alphanumeric.. if you are using bad names.. fix it by a full factory reset in airport utility and give it all names that comply to the above.
Type in
AFP://TCname.local Where TCname is replaced with the actual name.
You will be asked for the password the first time which is public unless you changed it.. please remember to save this in the keychain.
Copy files then to a new directory you create on the TC.. do not place files inside the TM sparsebundle. Nor directly under the main directory.

I had a 'dead' iMac repaired and it needed a new HDD & graphics card, the repairer installed OSX 10.6.8 and i now need to install other software but I am being asked for 'User' password so I may do this, I've no idea what this will be. Help please.

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On looking at the secure.log on the iMac with OSX10.6.8, I see these entries at each attempt to scp into the iMac:
Dec 29 11:06:20 molika sshd[7248]: in pam_sm_authenticate(): Failed to determine Kerberos principal name.
Dec 29 11:06:26 molika sshd[7246]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for prowat from 137.110.243.132 port 35571 ssh2
Dec 29 11:06:26 molika com.apple.SecurityServer[26]: Session 0x236a14 created
Dec 29 11:06:26 molika com.apple.SecurityServer[26]: Session 0x236a14 attributes 0x20
Dec 29 11:06:27 molika com.apple.SecurityServer[26]: Session 0x236a14 dead
Dec 29 11:06:27 molika com.apple.SecurityServer[26]: Killing auth hosts
Dec 29 11:06:27 molika com.apple.SecurityServer[26]: Session 0x236a14 destroyed
I don't know what to make of this.
Peter R

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Mac OS X is inherently a Multi-User system, even when ther is only one User account.
Whether it asks depends on the permissions of the file in question.
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This is the TC password not the wireless password..
Anyway press the reset button for 1sec. that is a soft reset.. all passwords are reset to default.. ie TC password is public if it is required at all.
Then change to a new password via the new iOS utility.
As usual apple are outdoing themselves testing these new releases.. welcome to beta land.

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Hi Bob13524,
Man, that definitely sounds frustrating! And it sounds like this issue is occurring with several accounts, so let’s see if we can troubleshoot this. The following resource provides some great information for troubleshooting Mail issues, including information on using the Connection Doctor:
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jkwells84, Welcome to the discussion area!
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Changing or resetting an account passowrd(Snow Leopard oe earlier)
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1274
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https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4101

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Hi everyone,
I have two Hotmail,Gmail and other email service providers setup in my Mail app
the problem is only with the Hotmail accounts
The Mail program keep asking continuously - once in awhile - to type the password for the Hotmail email although the password is saved and it is there in the Keychain Access
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I don't know. However Hotmail does have some weird non-standard access protocol. (Well, it's probably a standard, but I don't know any other mail provider using such a protocol.) It's probably just some tweak that Thunderbird and others have done to force Hotmail to work with their program, but I really don't have any idea. Other people tell me their apps work so it's just seems to be something between Hotmail and OSX Mail.
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OK, I just want to make clear that Mail is asking for the Keychain password over and over again, periodically, while Mail is open. It does not ask for the passwords to individual accounts. There is no problem logging into any of the three email accounts I have activated. The normal behavior of Mail is to ask for the Keychain password once upon launch. What it does now, is continue to ask for the Keychain password periodically - perhaps every fifteen minutes, or so.
I have tried:
Running Keychain Repair. It did find problems, repaired them, but this did not resolve the issue.
Disabled accounts one at a time, hoping to isolate the problem to one account - no luck. Then I disabled all at once. Mail continued asking for Keychain password, even though all accounts were disabled.
Deleted Keychain Items associated with these e-mail accounts, and re-created them. This did not resolve the issue.
Cursing Mail each time it asked for, and I had to re-enter, the Keychain password. This, also, did not resolve the issue.
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I recommend you do a fully isolated setup. Especially if you are using wireless.
Plug the TC into the computer by ethernet. Make sure it is LAN port marked <->.
Open the utility. It should not need a password now to access.. if it does, do a full factory reset.
This is done by holding in reset.. then power on the TC and wait for about 10 sec.. never releasing the reset.. front LED flashes rapidly.. then release the reset.. and wait for the TC to reboot.
In the airport utility select bridge mode under networking.
Go to the wireless page and setup wireless as you prefer.
Update the TC.. disconnect from the computer and plug it back by ethernet into the router.

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