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I thought that there was a way to do this... I can't seem to remember how to do this. Thanks for any information

Hello there.. Can anyone help me with changing the login background image in OSX. That is the image displayed at the background when the login in window come up for OSX. I figured out how to change the bootpanel in OSX by overwriting the bootpanel.pdf but I still cannot get around with...

I just upgraded from os 10.1.x to 10.2 and can't get myadministrative user to boot. It will take my passoword, get into my normal os x desktop, and then send me back to the where I select which user account I want to log into. This might have something to do with a norton file called...

I'm having a very weird problem with my ibook (MacOs X 10.2): I shutted the computer down and didn't used it for a week, and when I started it again I couldn't log in (although I was sure I was using the correct password and username). I tried accessing my computer from another one using an...

I'm having a very weird problem with my ibook (MacOs X 10.2): I shutted the computer down and didn't used it for a week, and when I started it again I couldn't log in (although I was sure I was using the correct password and username). I tried accessing my computer from another one using an...

Is there a way to take a Mac that has multiple user login (other logins have no info saved on it really) and take it to the original where it was a one user login when starts up.

i have samba mounts coming from my linux machine, mounted them fine, etc. and put them in the login items area (i.e. just dragged and dropped them there). they show up as folders so great, i go to logout and when i log back in one shows up as unknown and the other shows up as a folder, however...

terminal message See the text "Happy GNU Year", and the text below it? In OS X I think it says "Welcome to Darwin!". Anyone know where this file is stored? Thanks.

We have OS X Server up and running, user accounts created, NetInfo config modified via Directory Access on a powerbook, etc. Unfortunately when I enter the network username on the Powerbook I get the error... 'You cannot log into this computer. You are not authorized to log into this...

Is there a way to find out how long a user has been logged in? Over a period of a week/month? At school we get a monthly report of how long a user was logged in. We have a FreeBSD server and everyone uses Nifty Telnet to login over the network. But I want to able to see this info on my OS X...

Hi - I am a recent "switcher" and new to not only Jaguar but Macs in general. I have 2 dual-USB iBooks and I am picking up an older iMac this weekend which I would like to use as a print and file server on my network. A couple questions: Is there a way to have the iBooks auto-mount...

OK so laugh if you want but here is another newbie who can't login to his own puter. I set root and password that works fine, but every time I try to do something I get " Permission Denied" If I try to login as "superuser" it asks for my ID and passwd. Neither of which work withany of the...

Is there any way (short of creating a "disk" with Interarchy) that I can connect to an FTP server at startup and have it on my desktop just like a disk? The thing is, it requires a username and password, and I don't want to use extra programs... just os x. How do I set up the "Connect to...

Hi My dad is trying to do a remote login using the Go> Conect to Server Comand in the finder. With no luck. He is trying to conect to a SUN Unix worksation set up as a server. However he needs to get past a coprate firewall, using a CVC VPN tunnel, wicht he has conected to. In netscape he...

My admin account has died and I can't get past the blue screen when logging in. Here's everything I know: I’m running the latest version of OSX with everything is kept up-to-date. I had just finished burning a disc with Toast when the verification dialog popped up. Toast quit unexpectedly...

On MacOS X is there ANY way to, on a network, allow a user to login through the standard os x login dialog on any computer without having to buy OS X server? And when they login all their preferences, documents, etc. become active (like the desktop pic changes to what they specified). For...

My father is having difficulty connecting his FreeBSD Linux to my Mac OS X 10.2.2 after a clean install via SSH. In fact, any attempt to remotely log in to any account on the Mac is greeted with an error accusing "too many authentication errors." My father suggested that perhaps the error is...

Hello, I work for Hitachi Computer Products and I am trying to see if I can replace our current test setup (one PC & one Sun 4.1.4) with a single Mac. I'm not a Unix geek so I'm struggling my way through this. I'm hoping that the Solaris object files we use for testing will run on the Mac...

I have a very strange problem with OSX. It's running on my Imac (flat panel) latest version blah blah. It was all working swimmingly until a couple of days ago. I have a mutli user setup where users click on their pic and type in their password. All fairly standard and it was all working...

How do you replace the login screen under X.2 :confused: