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« on: February 03, 2006, 06:06:43 am » |
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Okay, maybe I should just stop screwing with my macs, cause all I seem to do is make them mad at me!
Here's the situation: I have two accounts set up on my home PowerMac G5 Tower, one for my wife and one for me. I have 2 internal hard drives (both 250GB) and 5 external hard drives (each 500GB and all using FireWire 800). Well, the only hard drive that I allow my wife to have access to is one of the internal hard drives (the main boot drive that has OSX 10.4.4 installed on it). Well, I added a new hard drive and tried to make it where she wouldn't have access to it. At the same time I checked the privilages on all the other hard drives and made sure they were all the same as far as privilages go. I did this from her account, not mine (I am the system admin for the computer), but somehow made it to where NOBODY can access the other drives! So now, no matter if I log in to my account or hers, neither one of us can see any of the other hard drives! Anybody know how I can reverse this?
Oh, and the first person that suggests anything with "erase your hard drives" in it gets banned! lol[/size]
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« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2006, 08:53:43 am » |
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Can you connect to your hd's with your powerbook? That way you might be able to restore the permissions. Have you tried all your disk utitlity apps? Maybe one of them allows you to reset the priviliges of the HD's. Lol GS owned by his own comp.   |
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« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2006, 10:32:05 am » |
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Yep id go with sents plan first, would have thought that would work.
Do the drives mount but just not let you open them? Have you tried changing the permissions manually?
can you mount them from disk utility?
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« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2006, 03:05:40 pm » |
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Yep id go with sents plan first, would have thought that would work.
Do the drives mount but just not let you open them? Have you tried changing the permissions manually?
can you mount them from disk utility?
I'll bring my PowerBook home tonight and try what Sent said first. The drives don't mount at all on the desktop, but if I turn one off it still gives me that stupid message that I didn't properly put my drive away. I'll try the other things you mentioned tonight when I get home from work.
And you're right, Sent...I got pwned by my own computer!
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« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2006, 03:18:51 pm » |
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The HDs should be appearing in the Disk Utility at least, this way you can fix permissions (as usual) because the root user should have access to all external devices, no matter what. The permissions are saved on the computer, not on the HDs themselves... therefore it should be no problem to fix it with a different Mac as well.
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« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2006, 07:25:06 pm » |
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Curious to know what the latest status is GS?....
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« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2006, 09:07:27 pm » |
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the boot from laptop will fix it 99.99% absolutly certain  |
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« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2006, 09:44:12 pm » |
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Curious to know what the latest status is GS?....
Yep, like Civic said, I'm still at work. I get off in about 3 more hours so I'll update you guys after that. |
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« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2006, 05:15:31 am » |
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Um, guys, none of that worked. I went into Disk Utilities and the hard drives show up in there but the buttons that allow me to fix permissions are not highlighted and they won't let me click on them. I tried it on both my G5 Tower and my PowerBook and it was the same both ways. Any other ideas?[/size]
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« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2006, 06:47:51 am » |
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Okay, final update and the fix...
From the great Buccaneer! Man, he knows EVERYTHING!
In Utilities, go to NetInfo Manager and enable your root user account. Then log in using the root user account and then the hard drives will show up on the desktop and you can fix the permissions!
I now have 5 working external hard drives again.[/size]
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« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2006, 09:53:19 am » |
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well *yay* for you then
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« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2006, 11:02:47 am » |
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You could just have just let your wife have access to all the hds.
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« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2006, 02:52:12 pm » |
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You could just have just let your wife have access to all the hds.
What? Access to all his Girls Gone Wild videos?  Um, there is NO way in hell I'm letting my wife have access to the stuff that is on my external hard drives! That stuff is double double top secret classified Omega-17 for my eyes only! |
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« Reply #16 on: February 04, 2006, 03:04:16 pm » |
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What? Access to all his Girls Gone Wild videos? You mean Boys Gone Wild videos. |
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« Reply #17 on: February 04, 2006, 03:06:14 pm » |
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lol
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