Hi, You set up the user accounts in system Prefs in the Users & Groups pane. YOu will need to unlock the lock so that you are allowed to create users. Once unlocked, press the "Add User or Group" button. There will be a pop-up for deciding whether the user is an Admin, Standard or other type as wel as fields for the user's name, short name and password. When you fill in the user's name then tab to the Short name, the Short name will be filled in automatically. You can change it if you wish but I'd just leave it alone. The rest is fairly straight forward. If you use Snow Leopard instead of Lion, the pane is called Accounts instead of Users & Groups.
HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-09-17, at 9:24 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > Today in the mail we got a 2007 Mac Mini from a friend of mine who graduated > to a Macbook Air and had no use for his old machine. It runs, but I'll need > to re-install Lion (that's another post). My question is this: we plan to use > this as a family machine hooked up to the big screen in the living room, but > all three of us have our own apple accounts. I'd like to set things up so > that we each have a user account and can log into our apple ids without > conflicting with each other. Two questions rise from this: > 1. How would I do it? I assume it is accessible, but is there anything I > should know about? > 2. How can I make us all admins? I'm the only one who would do actual tech > support on the mac, but I don't want to get calls about how someone can't do > something because of lack of privileges. > Thanks for any suggestions on this. I can't remember the last time we had > multiple accounts - everyone has their own computers nowadays - and I am the > only one in the house with mac experience, so this will be a first for > everyone else. > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > [email protected] > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > 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/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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/macvisionaries?hl=en.
