Why won't my itunes account work for the app store on my imac?

I just got my mom's imac, which has her itunes account linked to the app store.
My personal itunes account is logged in in and working in itunes, but when i attempt to log into the app store, it says "Your device or computer could not be verified".
What's up??

Thanks for the help.
I just spoke with an apple rep and they walked me through a ton of stuff.
Ended up restarting a couple times they had me move the file "com.apple.appstore.plist" from Library/Preferences to my desktop and restart.
Then, logging in worked.
Thanks again!
Tommy

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