Unable to access Network Preferences

When going into network preferences I am recieving a message: "You cannot open Network Preferences pane because it is not availible to you at this time."
Because of it I cannot access a lot of components in the system preferences. I made sure The wifi is working since I can browse websites. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This is solved: it was a policy set that I wasn't aware of.

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Unable to open network preferences

I'm unable to open the network preferences window inside system preferences. When I try, it just keeps saying "loading network" and nothing happens. I found a couple other discussions about this and trashing a .plist file, but it's not very clear how to solve the problem. Does anyone have any experience with this?
Thanks in advance,
Chris

Open /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/, move everything but Boot and PowerManagement plist files to the Desktop (in a folder), restart, and see if you can reliably reset everything.

Wired guest access - Unable to access network

Hello,
I've configured two WLC's with the exact same config one of them has working Wired guest network the other one does not.
The only difference in the two I know of is that the one that does not work is connected to a Cisco 3550 switch, the one that works is connected to a Cisco 7600.
The problem is when I connect a computer to the wired guest network I am able to get an IP address from the Internal DHCP server but unable to access the network.
I've tried pinging the gateway's IP and I get no answer.
The Port-channel interface has the correct VLans and the vlans exist on all switches.
If anyone see an error there or might have an idea why this is not working I would appreciate the feedback.
Config follows below..
regards,
Gk

(Cisco Controller) >show running-config
802.11a cac voice tspec-inactivity-timeout ignore
802.11a cac voice stream-size 84000 max-streams 2
802.11b cac voice tspec-inactivity-timeout ignore
802.11b cac voice stream-size 84000 max-streams 2
location rssi-half-life tags 0
location rssi-half-life client 0
location rssi-half-life rogue-aps 0
location expiry tags 5
location expiry client 5
location expiry calibrating-client 5
location expiry rogue-aps 5
Cisco Public Safety is not allowed to set in thisdomain
ap syslog host global 255.255.255.255
auth-list ap-policy ssc enable
custom-web ext-webserver add 1 217.28.176.114
dhcp create-scope guestnetwork
dhcp address-pool guestnetwork 192.168.34.2 192.168.34.200
dhcp default-router guestnetwork 192.168.34.254
dhcp enable guestnetwork
dhcp dns-servers guestnetwork 212.30.200.200 212.30.200.199
dhcp network guestnetwork 192.168.34.0 255.255.255.0
local-auth method fast server-key *****
interface create guestnetwork 331
interface create guestnetwork-wired 332
interface address ap-manager 10.255.255.90 255.255.255.248 10.255.255.94
interface address dynamic-interface guestnetwork 192.168.34.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.34.254
interface address dynamic-interface guestnetwork-wired 192.168.35.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.35.254
interface address management 10.255.255.89 255.255.255.248 10.255.255.94
interface address service-port 10.60.4.200 255.255.255.0
interface address virtual 1.1.1.1
interface dhcp ap-manager primary 10.255.255.89
interface dhcp dynamic-interface guestnetwork primary 10.255.255.89
interface dhcp management primary 10.255.255.89
interface dhcp service-port disable
interface vlan ap-manager 226
interface vlan guestnetwork 331
interface vlan guestnetwork-wired 332
interface vlan management 226
interface port ap-manager 29
interface port guestnetwork 29
interface port guestnetwork-wired 29
interface port management 29
lag enable
load-balancing window 5
mesh security eap
mgmtuser add root **** read-write
mobility group domain XXXXXXX
mobility symmetric-tunneling enable
network otap-mode disable
network rf-network-name XXXXXXX
radius acct add 1 XXXXXXX 1813 ascii ****
radius auth add 1 XXXXXXX 1812 ascii ****
radius auth management 1 disable
spanningtree port mode off 1
spanningtree port mode off 2
sysname XXXXXXX
time ntp interval 3600
time ntp server 1 XXXXXXX
wlan create 1 hotspot hotspot
guest-lan create 1 hotspot-wired
wlan interface 1 guestnetwork
guest-lan interface 1 guestnetwork
wlan custom-web webauth-type external 1
wlan custom-web ext-webauth-url https://XXXXXXX
wlan session-timeout 1 disable
wlan wmm allow 1
wlan wmm allow 18
wlan security wpa disable 1
wlan security wpa disable 18
wlan radius_server auth add 1 1
wlan radius_server acct add 1 1
guest-lan radius_server auth add 1 1
guest-lan radius_server acct add 1 1
wlan dhcp_server 1 0.0.0.0 required required
wlan enable 1
guest-lan enable 1

Window 8.1 system unable to access network shares via VPN connection

Is there something inherent to Windows 8.1 that prevents it from accessing shares on a domain?
I know that it cannot join a domain, but does that also mean that it cannot access shares which are on a domain?
My problem is that I have several user that are running windows 8.1 that are connecting to our network via a VPN.
The users have domain accounts but their computers as windows 8.1 cannot joined to the domain.
So to access network shares they have to use their domain credentials to create a VPN connection.
Once connected the user can RDP to systems on the domain using their domain accounts, so I know that their user names/passwords and permissions are correct. They can access these systems using the computer name, so I don't feel that I have a DNS issue.
They can see the shares on our file server, but when they try to access their departments shared file, they receive an access denied message. There are a few shares that are completely wide open, shared to all users and all departments but they cannot access
those shares either.
You can ping the file server, from the the client when they are connected to the VPN but you just cannot access any of the shares.
So...
I am thinking that it has something to do with windows 8.1 and not being able to join a domain, but I cannot find anything to explicitly support this thought.
Other users running a variety different OS (windows 7, OSX, Linux) can all access the shares without any problems via the VPN, so I am a little stumped.

I have done some more testing and oddly enough I can map a drive if I use the IPaddress, but not the computer name, when checking the check box "connect using different credentials"and providing they users domain credentials.
This seems to point to a DNS issue, one would think, but I can hit the file share server by name \\fileserver.dev.lan
I can see all the shares, so dns seems to be fine right?
So I don't understand why I can map a drive using do the IPaddress and not the machine name, but yet I can see and ping the server by name?
When I try to create a mapped drive by machine name I receive the following message:
Windows cannot access \\fileserver.dev.lan\all
You do not have permissions to access \\fileserver.dev.lan. contact your network administrator to request access.
But if I use the \\x.x.x.x\all using the very same user and password I get connected with no problem.
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I am thinking about upgrading to windows 8.1 pro, but I don't want to go though the hassle and expanse is the OS is not the problem.

Network Media Player (Noontec V9-T) unable to access network shares on WIN8 Pro

I have just upgraded from Windows 7 home premium 64 bit to Windows 8 Pro 64 bit. After the upgrade, I made sure my video library was shared (both with the homegroup and my username) and that network discovery was enabled file sharing enabled etc etc.
On the Noontec Media centre I can see the workgoup called WORKGROUP. When I click on it I can see the name of my PC. But when I click on the pc name to log in to access the shares within it comes up with a username/pass box comes up. I then put in my username/pass
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Is there a way for me to access network shares from this media centre by maybe installing a new samba server on the windows 8 machine that is compatible with older samba clients? I am not savy with samba clients/servers at all, I just loved the way XP network
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A lot of these media players will not work correctly. If your Video files are stored as .avi, MKV, MP4 etc.. pretty much anything excpet for .ISO, the best way is to use Plex media server on the windows 8 PC. It's free and should allow you to organise files
and libraries as you want.In fact, it's my preferred access method now, as most, smart TVs also support plex and support it well....allowing me to play the files directly in my smart TV, without using the Media players.
In addition if you have an Android tablet or phone, you can (if you want) access your media files from Plex using Media Monkey (free) and simply play them direct to the TV, Media Monkey simply hands the data stream over to the smart TV.
I have a similar set of media players and exactly the same problem with windows 8,8.1, previous shares on versions 7, vist etc..work perfectly. I use a free application on my android phone to remote start my media server/s (via the network card).
Shutter Light - Free monitoring activity and network data, to prevent unwanted sleep during Videos and to ensure the PC goes into sleep mode (disabling windows power management)
Plex simplifies everything and acts as a great central server for all types of devices and can bring media files together from different Directories/Disks, in to one set of Libraries.

Unable to access network shares

In our enterprise environment we have a home share with approx 20 folders viewable to all staff with different folder accessible to different departments. One of our users has an issue when switching from a wired to wireless network connection
on his laptop he is no longer able to view/access the folders from the home share and can only view/access one particular folder. This also happens when he is at home accessing via VPN.
TIA for any ideas as to what may cause this.
Hank Vare

In our enterprise environment we have a home share with approx 20 folders viewable to all staff with different folder accessible to different departments. One of our users has an issue when switching from a wired to wireless network connection
on his laptop he is no longer able to view/access the folders from the home share and can only view/access one particular folder. This also happens when he is at home accessing via VPN.
TIA for any ideas as to what may cause this.
Hank Vare
I assume the user has a clean install of Windows?
I rolled out 8.1 which has better sharing, I recall a few problems with 7 when out in the field
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Time machine unable to access network disk

I have a USB disk attached to my Airport Extreme, and use it as the target of my time machine backups from my mac book pro (connected via WiFi). For the most part things work fine. But if my macbook goes to sleep, after it wakes up it often (not always) gets the next time machine backup to fail with a message saying that it cannot access the disk. At first I found a brutal method of correcting it: I would disconnect from WiFi, go to my AE and power cycle it. After it came back the macbook never had any problem with the disk. A little more exploration indicated that Lion wasn't unmounting the disk properly. The following works (but sometimes requires a few iterations): I'll go to finder, eject the disk, and disconnect from Airport Extreme, and then go to the terminal and do
sudo diskutil unmountdisk disk1
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and then ask time machine to backup again. Many times I have to repeat this a few more times before it "takes". Has anyone else run into this? It clearly looks like a bug in Lion, since it never happened until I upgraded.
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PS. I understand that Apple says that they don't support time machine backup to network disks. But they do to a time capsule! It isn't really different.

I'm replying because, while I don't have a solution for you, I was experiencing the same issue at home not long ago. My solution has been to backup at the office (), but I'm about to switch back to running Time Machine at home. I think we'll be going through this together.
The difference in my situation is that my backup volume lives in a PowerMac G5, but I'm sure it's the same error.

Unable to access network with wifi

Dear sir,
I'm using MBP with Retina 14" and OS X 10.9.1 (13B3116)
I can connect to my wifi and using the internet without problem but after about 30 mins to 2 hours, I cannot access the internet anymore and can't ping to my router (the wifi connection is also established, not disconnected or rejoin). When I open console and see wifi.log, I found this error show every time before problem occured.
Sun Feb 16 14:51:48.488 <airportd[86]> _handleLinkEvent: Unable to process link event, op mode request returned -3903 (Operation not supported)
Now, when I faced that problem, I have to turn off my airport and reconnect.
Please help.
Thanks

Have you tried changing the channel(s) on your router?
For 2.4GHz routers, Macs seem to prefer channel 11.
For 5.0GHz routers, try channel 149.
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Player on WD2 Black (Dual Drive) unable to access 2nd partition

Host OS : Win 7 Pro (x64)
Guest OS: XP Pro (x86)
I had a regular (mechanical) 500 GB hard drive (2 partitions OS and DATA) with W7P (x64) and VM Player 3.x running XPP for years with no problem.
I could access the 2nd partition through the Guest OS and modify/save files etc on it.
I just got a new WD2 Black Dual Drive (120GB SSD and 1TB mechanical in one unit) so technically there are 2 partitions on the drive.
I copied the entire Player (data) folder from the old drive to the new. I installed the same version of Player 3.x and tried to access the Guest OS - I am able to access it but unable to access network or usb drives (keep getting errors as it boots up also) etc.
So I started from scratch on new drive - installed vmplayer 3.x (even tried every version upto v 7.1.0) and installed Guest OS (XPP) again and now I am able to access the network and usb drives etc.
But when I add the 2nd partition in the settings and start the player I get an error that it cannot start because it cannot power up the scsi (2nd partition) drive and it shuts down.
If I remove the 2nd partition from settings it boots up fine.
I am able to access the 2nd partition in W7P with no problems.
In the Guest OS I am not able to access the 2nd partition.
I called WD Support and they said to call VMWARE support and the problem has nothing to do with the physical drive.
I have updated all the VMware tools (as recommended) but still not able to access the 2nd partition.
In W7P I had to install a "driver" software to access the 2nd partition. I tried to install the same thing in the Guest OS (XPP) it starts to install and then comes back and says it cannot see the 2nd partition.
Any help in this would be greatly appreciated as I would like to keep all the documents/data on the 2nd partition and be able to access the same from both the HOST and GUEST OS's without having to create duplicates or transfer them back and forth between the two.

OK FaiyazR, I think I see your core question.
When you first create a VM the only "disk" it knows is the virtual one.
If you want to access the physical disk or just specific files on the physical disk, you will have to set up a "Shared Folder". Here is one way to do it:
While in VM Player:
Go to the "Player" button(screen upper-left)
Select "Manage"
Select "Virtual Machine Settings"
In the popup window select "Options"
In the "Options" menu select "Shared Folders"
Click enabled
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Click the "Add..." button which brings up the Shared Folder Wizard
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How do I set up the magic trackpad when I can't access System Preferences

Bought a new iMac and Magic Mouse. After initial installation, decided to swap mouse for the Magic Trackpad.
Trackpad is turned on but I am unable to access System Preferences since my iMac was paired with the Magic Mouse. I don't have another USB mouse to complete the pairing. Any suggestions? Thank You.

Nancy,
If you have the bluetooth icon in the menubar, you can reach that and open bluetooth preferences by
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Regards,
Captfred

Can't access System Preferences in Spaces

Quite frequently I find myself unable to access System Preferences.
I think it may be a Spaces issue and I think it may happen if I close the System Preferences window.
If I Option-Command-Esc, the window shows System Preferences is running. But force quitting System Preferences has no effect.
If I Command-Tab, I see System Preferences in the row of icons. However selecting this icon has no effect, the System Preferences window does not come to the front.
Of course I can't open Spaces to try to resolve the problem because it is a System Preference.
The only solution I have found is to Logout and log back in.

Oops, never mind. I have a Wacom tablet connected to my Mac, and turns out that the system prefs window was showing up on that screen instead of my main display.
For future reference, is there a way to delete a post such as my first one?

Wifi Lost and Network Preferences Inaccessible after Resume from Sleep

Macbook Pro, shipped with Lion.
I've had a problem when Lion resumes from sleep of not being able to access any networks. Specifically, the wifi symbol in the menu bar shows the pulsating waves, when clicked it reports that it is searching for networks, however it doesn't find the standard wireless network it is normally connected to at home, nor can I choose any further options in that dropdown menu. Specifically, I cannot access Network Preferences, via any GUI based method (don't know enough CLI to know how).
Most alarming is that this has happened in a couple of different scenarios:
1) normally putting the laptop to sleep if 2 different users are logged in via fast user switching
2) if the computer shuts itself down from the sleep position because it has been unplugged for too long.
Restarting does revert everything back to normal, but I was hoping for a less drastic fix. Sorry to gripe, but I'm especially disappointed because I'm a mac newbie, and between this and other problems, have had to restart this mac due to spinning pinwheels of death and the like more in 2 months than I ever have a Sony Vaio Z running Windows 7. Kind of disappointing that Mac has the less stable operating system.

That's awkward. It may not be the Mac itself making it unstable, but yet programs on it making it unstable (lazy developers maybe). Although do remember that OS X Lion is fairly new, and a few bugs are still being ironed out.
First thing you should do is Repair permissions. Open up Disk Utility, Chose your disk on the Left and click on the Repair Permissions button. This can take about 20 minutes and fixes most problems.
Questions:
Have you installed any additonal system prefence panels?
Have you installed any programs that alter with WiFi?
Does your WiFi Access point have enough strength for where you are?
If you have installed addional system preferences then I suggest that you go to Finder, and in the top bar click on "Go" and navigate to "Go To Folder". In that box put this: "~/Library/PreferencePanes" (No quotes though - and remember the "~" ).
It'll take you to a folder, copy those into a safe location and remove the contents of that folder.
If you are an Administrator of your computer then do the same in "/Library/PreferencePanes".
Hope all goes well! Good luck!

User Preference Panes dimmed, unable to access...

I am "in charge" of our network which consists of 10 PowerMac G5s, an XServe and XRAID. We are currently running 10.4.6 throughout.
We are adding some WACOM tablets to a couple stations, but I have been unable to access the WACOM preference pane in the system preferences. The WACOM software creates a new row below the "System" row, and adds it's preference pane. When logged in as a user this pane is visible, but dimmed out. When I log in as root the preference becomes available, and I am able to tune the tablet.
I have used the latest driver, and have installed / uninstalled a few times. I have installed as root, and as a user with identical results as above.
The Workgroup Manager has NOT been configured to manage user preferences; there are three options that I see, "Never", "Once", and "Always"- "Never" is selected.
I am looking for a way to make the WACOM pane available to the user. Any thoughts?
Thanks!

Tried Repairing Permissions on the machine after installation?
I would have thought that installing as Root would be a bad idea (might cause permissions problems). An 'admin' user should be sufficient. Do 'plain' users have any restrictions set on them in their Accounts preferences?
It doesn't sound like it has anything to do with the server though, (if you are not using managed preferences). If you get no joy here (server forum) you might want to try the genera Tiger forum area.
-david

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Hi everyone,
I have my web site (and some other services) hosted outside of my network by my hosting provider, but handle all other items using OS X Server on my network (i.e. Wiki and so forth).
The problem is now that I am unable to access my website at www.mydomain.com from within the network. I have external DNS set up for www.mydomain.com to point to my website, while mydomain.com points to my OS X Server (static IP address). Internally in OS X Server's DNS settings this used to work when I had www.mydomain.com resolving to the IP address of my web host, in addition to the default domain settings that OS X had set up. For some reason this is no longer working, and I am unable to figure out why.
Using latest version of OS X Server 3.0.2.
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Update: this ended up being a redirect issue on the web host. I added another subdomain that was hosted externally, and it worked fine. For some reason my web host is redirecting www.mydomain.com to domain.com.

I am in Texas and cannot get to that site either. Do you know for sure the site is up and working? It could just be down (for days, a site I support was down for almost 4 full days a few weeks ago due to a virus problem).
This may (again, may) be your problem: I see you have a173.48.x.x (you really should x-out the last two octets of your IP address for privacy reasons), I am on a 173.74.x.x address; I know some people have had problems with getting to some sites now that they have a 173.x.x.x address. I think Verizon obtained addresses in that range and some of the addresses apparently previously belonged to spammers or some malicious folks.Some sites (web sites, intermeidate routers, etc.) blocked those addresses, and may not have updated their filters to remove the block on those addresses because they don't know that Verizon now owns them. If this is the problem, eventually those filters will get updated and you will be able to access the site, but this could be a fairly long time.
If you know how to contact that site I suggest you email them about the problem. You can also try turning off your router overnight and when you turn it back on the next day you may find that you have a different address (one that doesn't start with 173) that will allow you to get to the site.
I don't think there is much Verizon can do to help, it is not their site that is blocking your address (at least I don't think it is).
Hope this helps.
Justin
Verizon FiOS TV, Internet, and phone
IMG 1.6.2, Build 08.58
Keller, TX 76248

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