Not sure if this a network question, Monterey question or High Sierra question. Or something else.
I spent 2 hours on the phone with Apple support trying to figure this out, to no avail. I'm no Apple Genius, but I've been using Macs for 12-13 years and I'm quite practiced with troubleshooting, but I'm coming up empty on this one. The settings on the M1 are as open as they can be, but when I try to access it from the iMac as a separate user, I get this:
Guest gets "denied." Registered User doesn't recognize any name / password combo. Using an Apple ID only allows the ID of the user logged in to this computer, and doesn't even have a field for password.
How can I get these two to talk with two different user names?
- I have three Macs in a home office: new 16" M1 MBP, 2011 iMac, 2009 MBP.
- M1 MBP runs Monterey.
- iMac runs High Sierra.
- Old MBP runs El Cap.
- All permissions and settings the same for file sharing on each.
- Old MBP and iMac can share files over network regardless of who is logged in to either.
- M1 MBP and iMac will only share files over network if both are logged in with my user name / Apple ID.
- M1 MBP and iMac will not share files if someone else is logged into iMac, even with admin privileges.
I spent 2 hours on the phone with Apple support trying to figure this out, to no avail. I'm no Apple Genius, but I've been using Macs for 12-13 years and I'm quite practiced with troubleshooting, but I'm coming up empty on this one. The settings on the M1 are as open as they can be, but when I try to access it from the iMac as a separate user, I get this:
Guest gets "denied." Registered User doesn't recognize any name / password combo. Using an Apple ID only allows the ID of the user logged in to this computer, and doesn't even have a field for password.
How can I get these two to talk with two different user names?