Allowing information to be used by more than one user
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Mac File Sharing with Windows 7
I haven't found any useful info about what to do when asked for a password whilst sharing files between Mac and Windows. My scenario: I have ONE user on my Mac (somebrit) and no one else, not even ...
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286 views
Changing my Game Center ID
If I am sharing an Apple ID with my son, can I change my Game Center name without messing up his games on his iPod?
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1answer
208 views
Change an app from “all users” to “this user only”
I've been on my mac for quite a while now, using only a single account (mine).
I've added a new account for my girlfriend recently (yes it's getting serious), but I have a little problem.
I'm a ...
3
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2answers
774 views
afp over wireless lan extremely slow
I’m connecting from one MacBook Pro (10.6.5) (let’s call it “1”) to another (10.4.11) “2” via WLAN and afp and both are connected to the WLAN via WPA2.
The router is showing me theoretical connection ...
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1answer
2k views
share purchased movies with friends
Sometimes when I visit friends and don't have my Mac around I still would like to watch some of the movies I purchased on iTunes together with them. How do I do this? Can I share movies with others ...
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Why can't our iPad see all the iTunes-U courses shared from the iMac?
I have 6 courses in iTunes-U loaded into iTunes on my iMac. The latest is WWDC 2012. I can see all those courses on my wife's MacBook, but only the other 5 using the Video app on our iPad.
Can anyone ...
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Why do I have duplicate contacts with limited info labeled “share contact”?
I recently got my first iPhone, the 4s. Verizon transferred my contact list from my Blackberry, but the entries were incomplete (missing addresses, etc.)
I have a big list of contacts in MS Outlook, ...
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2answers
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Using a wi-fi and an ethernet connection at the same time thus having more bandwidth?
Is there a way on OSX or with a 3rd party software to use both a Wi-fi and an ethernet connection, thus having the sum of the connection speeds?
Or maybe making some applications connect to one ...
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3answers
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How do I share apps between iTunes profiles?
We have a number of iDevices in the family, and each user has their own Apple ID.
If I purchase an app for my ipod or ipad, can I share it with my wife and son, each of whom have their own IDs? How ...
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3answers
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Make a 2 way sharing folder with my PC
I've been trying to make a sharing folder with my PC for so long and it seems to complicated. In windows 7 there is Homesharing and the configuration is so easy.
I would like to make a folder which ...
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3answers
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How can I transfer a Large (450Mb) file between two Mountain Lion Macbook Pros?
I have two identical Macbook Pro Retina laptops. How can I transfer files between them?
I have looked at the AirPort utility, but don't see a way to "create a new network" let alone make it ...
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5answers
2k views
Does iChat screen sharing over the internet work in OS X Lion?
If I upgrade to Lion, will I still be able to use iChat to take over my elderly father's Mac (we have MobileMe accounts) to help him with problems and software updates? I read in some forums that this ...
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1answer
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Pages “Send via email” doesn't work after upgrade
I just upgraded to Mountain Lion. So far, so good. Great upgrade. I also upgraded to Pages '09 latest version: 4.2.
"Send via email" option works on Pages if and only if Mail.app is not running. If ...
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1answer
96 views
How to remap the “Send tweet” hotkey?
In Mountain Lion there is a "tweet sheet" when sharing from either notification center or an app. The default hotkey for "send tweet" is CMDShiftD. I'd like to use something like CMDRETURN. Is there a ...
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6answers
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Options to use iPad as remote photo viewing client
As it says here, I can use an iPad as a remote photo vieing client if I buy the WD My Book Live NAS. But I have an old NAS already and I wonder if there are any generic iPad apps that give similar ...
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Mac Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 - Unable to connect to shared folders on Windows PC's on network
I cannot successfully connect to any of the shared windows folders on any of the network-connected PC's since the installation of OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.
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1answer
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How can I share reminders from one iphone to another? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to share reminders?
We have 2 iphones between us, both running iOS 5. Is there a way to share reminders between them? They have different apple IDs ...
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How does a family with multiple idevices and multiple laptops share music and digital movie copies?
My wife and I both have our own laptops with our own iTunes accounts. Then we have a shared desktop. In the past, this was fine as all we had for iDevices was an iPod each. So we just managed our own ...
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1answer
288 views
files locked in public folder when sharing via file sharing
i share files with a friend from his macbook to my mac mini over my wireless connection.
i set my public folder as a shared folder & turned on file sharing in my system prefs.
my friend can copy ...
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2answers
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Why won't scanner show up for Scanner Sharing?
I have an HP ScanJet 4890 connected via USB to my desktop Mac Mini running Lion. Recently, HP finally! updated scanner drivers and my scanner is recognized and works on that machine (connected to a ...
2
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1answer
253 views
Sharing users between Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard — will this break user preferences?
I have ML and SL installed as dual boot OSes and want to share a user's home directory (on an external drive). I wonder, however, if I rather should use different users for each OS as ML might write ...
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3answers
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Choosing native screen resolution aspect ratio when screen sharing
I have two Macs both running Lion:
iMac (early 2009, iMac9,1 with NVIDIA GeForce GT 120)
MacBook Air (Early 2011, first of the new shape 11.6")
I often screen share using the Macbook Air as the ...
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1answer
175 views
Share file between Mac with password?
Like the title says, I want to share files between two Macs with password enabled. I've tried to disable the access of guest account and using the account with password. But it doesn't work, the ...
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1answer
379 views
Is it legal for other people (with different IDs) to share different apps,games and music with each other & if it is legal, is there a limit?
Say for example there's 3 people. Person 'A' has an app that person 'C' wants, while person 'A' has another app that person 'B'&'C' want. Can person 'A' transfer these apps without any memory ...
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Backup Time machine after update to Mountain Lion on windows share does not work any longer
I have a windows 7 network at home. I use a windows share to write the TM backup's. It worked perfect until the update toe Mountain Lion.
Who has the key to solve this?
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1answer
334 views
What is the best option to keep Laptop and Desktop user account in Sync?
I have a Mac desktop that is not always on and a Mac laptop that is usually on the same network. I have a new Synology drive that is always on and I'm considering making use of the LDAP server on it ...
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5answers
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Photo sharing with offline viewing for the iPad
I'm looking for a solution to easily share photos with family members around the world. I realise there are dozens of photo-sharing sites, but I'm looking for something that has
native iPad ...
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1answer
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Backgrounding iPhoto sharing via email
I just found out that when you share a picture in iPhoto via email, the email screen does not go away until the photo has been completely emailed. This means, if its a large photo that I am trying to ...
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0answers
767 views
Share External USB from OSX to Windows7
On sharing from Mac to Windows I get access denied.
My setup:
1 - Windows 7/64 bit 6GB
2 - OSX 10.8 - Mac mini 8GB
2TB external USB drive formatted exFat
Both machines are on the same ...
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6answers
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How can a keyboard be shared with an iPad?
What are the ways for both an iMac and an iPad to share the same physical keyboard?
If it's possible to share a regular Apple bluetooth keyboard between both devices without jailbreaking the iPad, I ...
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2answers
558 views
How can I connect to one server using two user names - at the same time?
I am struggling to find a way to allow users to connect to two different shares on a server at the same time. It seems like it should be possible, but no matter what I try I am always forced to ...
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1answer
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one computer, multiple iphones, multiple apple IDs
We have 2 iphones and 2 ipod touches and 3 separate apple logins. We manage all accounts on one computer by using multiple computer user logins. Note: this is how apple told us to set it up in the ...
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How to change the Mac's web sharing to URL other than http://unknowne3de6f2eaa3e/~mike/?
I got a new iMac last October (2011)... and its Web Sharing will say use the address
http://unknowne3de6f2eaa3e/~mike/
(from System Preferences -> Sharing). The name of the computer (hostname) ...
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1answer
508 views
Sharing a folder with the terminal
I'm trying to find a command to make a shared folder with the terminal to integrate in a shell script. But i couldn't find anything for making a shared folder on a MAC OS X client. Can you guys help ...
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When “there is a user sharing this computer” shows during ShutDown, how to find out more info about it?
During a Mac's ShutDown, a window shows:
Is there a way to find out more info, such as who the user is (username), the IP of that user, and machine name? The Terminal app can show some info by ...
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Mounting shares with Login Items at login, Finder windows popup
I have some shares that are mounted during login. I used Users & Groups' "Login Items" panel to do this. When I login, all of the shares pop up in their own Finder windows.
How can I keep the ...
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1answer
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Is picture location info retained when I share a photo?
When I send a picture to a friend (e.g. via Messages, Mail, or Tweet), is the location information in that photo preserved? In other words, can they see where I took that photo?
What about when I use ...
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1answer
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What's the best way to share and edit documents between iPhones with separate Apple IDs?
My wife and I both have iPhones, we also have separate Apple IDs, but we'd like to be able to share and edit documents. We've looked at a couple of options:
Google Docs - Since it's lacking a native ...
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0answers
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Why is file sharing missing from sharing preferences?
File sharing is not an option for me under 'sharing'.
The image above illustrates the lack of file sharing, but I do have the following items:
dvd or cd sharing
screen sharing
scanner sharing
...
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12answers
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What's the best NAS for home usage with Macs?
Please share your experiences and reviews about NAS (Network-Attached Storage) below. In particular, rate their compatibility with Macs, OS X, iTunes, Time Machine, AppleTV, and other Apple-specific ...
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4answers
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‘Web Sharing’ won't turn off
I'm trying to turn off the Web Sharing service from the Preferences panel, but everything I try, it just gets stuck on ‘Interrupting...’, with an orange icon, and it doesn't do anything. If I close ...
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1answer
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How to correctly share a folder?
I would like to share a folder within a small lan (5 client mac).
I have a partition with a folder 'Office' inside. I would like to assign to all folders and files the same ownership ('UserOffice') ...
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0answers
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iPhoto Says Photos Are Shared, but Not Showing up on Facebook/Flickr
I've got recent photos in iPhoto 9.2.3 that say they were shared about an hour ago to both Flickr and Facebook. How do I force iPhoto to share to those two services again.
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1answer
952 views
Disable Kerberos / Single Sign-on
We have a Mac mini running OS X 10.7 Server which has a number of shared folders/drives using AFP. We have a user account called fcp setup as sharing only which coworkers use to access the shared ...
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1answer
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Changing the range of addresses served to clients connected via Internet Sharing
Macbook Pro Running 10.7.4 attempting to share ethernet connection via Airport(Wi-Fi) and trying to serve 192.168.1.x addresses to connected clients.
I've tried the guidance provided here and the ...
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0answers
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Internet Sharing on Mac via LAN [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Internet Sharing is grey out
My Mac is connected to internet using WiFi and its working fine. I want to share the internet connection via LAN but I am unable to select ...
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1answer
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How to change the default language of Facebook share page on iPad?
Whenever I want to share something on Facebook using another app on iPad, the Facebook login page show in Chineese.
I can change this by choosing English at the bottom of this login page but after I ...
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0answers
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How to disable save as in Photoshop/Illustrator?
We have basic security applied to a shared folder so only the authorized user can access the resource. The folder contain Illustrator and Photoshop files.
We would like to have a better authority ...
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2answers
668 views
Is there a way to share photos from one iTunes account with another?
I would like to share my photos that I have in my iTunes/iCloud account with another account. Ideally, I would like to be able to have anything that is in my photostream to be automatically sent to ...
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1answer
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Is it a bad idea to have a shared Apple ID for purchases that also is used for iCloud?
There is lots of advice that suggests using a shared Apple ID for purchasing things (so that all devices using that Apple ID for purchasing can access those purchases) and to then use a separate Apple ...
