account / login problem

[mnkeybsness]

this is a problem on my friend's emac.

he recently had to reinstall os X 10.2

he had a problem while using drive 10 to defrag his hard drive (it locked up) and it was in the middle of something important and the drive no longer recognized that it had any information on it.

but all that was fixed after re-install.

the problem now is that he can't log in from any other computer. and if you look at the attached image, you will notice that there are TWO Universal Access pref-panes (but not two in the System>Library>PreferencePanes) and there is no Accounts pane (but there is in the System>Library>PreferencePane)...what's the deal? oh and he IS the administrator.

i already repaired permissions under his login, and tried under root. but when i was logged in as root, i noticed that the preferences were as they should appear, with only one universal access pane and the user accounts pane is there.

anyone know what we can do about this?

 

[mnkeybsness]

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[unc32]

check under the Library->preferencepanes

 

[mnkeybsness]

yah i already checked there and universal access is not there

 

[Billicus]

I'm not having any troubles, and my UniversalAccess.prefpane shows up in /Library/Preference Panes/UniversalAccess.prefpane
Could it be that he has two UniversalAccess.prepane s there, and not an Accounts.prefpane?

 

[mnkeybsness]

Originally posted by Billicus
Could it be that he has two UniversalAccess.prepane s there, and not an Accounts.prefpane?

i think that's what i said already in the first post

 

[sparkleytone]

delete this file.

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache

you are welcome

 

[Kwyjibo]

I have a quick question sort of on this topic, I used CarbonCloneCopy tocopy my whole HD to the other for backup purpose (only the necessary osx apps) so When i booted from the external at the lgoin screen it said "Other" I clicked on it and tried both of my logon but neither worked. Any ideas or ways around the login screen without reinstalling the copy of osx to the HD?

 

[mnkeybsness]

boot from the osx cd

from the file menu, select reset password

 

[Kwyjibo]

thx

 

[sparkleytone]

so mnky...it worked??

 

[mnkeybsness]

haven't been able to try yet...

SPRING BREAK

i'll let you know as soon as i try if it worked or not...probably next sunday or so

 

[mnkeybsness]

i am finally back at school...thanks sparkletone...that worked for the prefs...

...but we are still having a problem with logins from windows computers...

everything works fine with my powermac with logging in from windows, so we decided to set his computer up the same way...but whenever we try to log in from a windows box, we will put in the appropriate username and password (admin and guest account) and it will just return the same login/password window only it will add "windows-computer-name/*account*" in the user name portion...what's the deal with that???

 

[mnkeybsness]

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