Hi Erik, Thanks for the post. I believe "student" is the short name (studentx, where x = station no., is the long name). All the file sharing concerns are Mac stations, but I believe we're using TCP/IP to establish connecting, I know we ditched AppleShare a while ago. Thanks, Dana
On 9/24/08 5:11 PM, Eric Volker of [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent > > I'm not a networking guru by any means, but I have run into similar > problems authenticating from Macs to Windows and Unix servers. In > those cases when I had trouble, I used the short account name to > authenticate. Is "student" the long and short name? If the short name > is different, try logging in with that. If encryption is specified in > the login box, I'd try turning it off too. > > Oh, and are you using Apple filesharing or SMB? > > Eric > > On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Dana Collins wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> I know there are some networking gurus on this list - perhaps what I >> am about to explain sounds familiar and you can point me or my helper >> in the right direction. >> I'm on sabbatical so my student administrator assistant is in charge >> of the music lab (a cluster of G5s running the same software, recently >> upgraded to Leopard 10.5.4). >> Here's the deal: all stations have two accounts: administrator and >> "student". Obviously all students log in as "student". All the student >> accounts have the same password, and are shared, i.e. file sharing is >> a normal daily operation. A student on station 2 >> can, in the Finder, go to Go>connect to server>list of .local >> stations and choose which station volume they wish to mount. >> the password is asked for to connect to Station X, and they type in >> the common password. >> >> Recently my helper notified me of the following: >> (quote) >>> The lab is settling down and mostly working now. However, when >>> students try to >>> connect to another station, it says that "xxxxx" (the password) is >>> an invalid password. Is >>> there a new password that I'm aware of, or is something else wrong? >> >> I had her log in as administrator and re-enter/refresh the student >> password on the ailing stations but that did not seem to work >> (according to a follow-up). Any pointers I can share from a distance >> for my helper to try? >> >> Many thanks in advance, >> Dana >>> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
