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Re: Mavericks Server auto-connect

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Mavericks Server auto-connect
Date	2014-01-31 17:28 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<bl24p4F8migU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2014-01-31, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <bl0mp7Ftsr8U1@mid.individual.net> 
>   Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>> I looked at the key chain again and figure out what was going on. A
>> while back I changed the host name of this machine. But I still had a
>> key for the old name in the key chain, in addition to another for the
>> new name. Apparently, that was enough to cause Server to refrain from
>> connecting automatically.
>
> That makes sense, actually. the same thing happens with the Finder
> "Connect to Server" command. If you have ONE set of credentials, it just
> connects and doesn't prompt for the user name and password, if you have
> more than one set, it *always* asks and will not fill in the password,
> regardless of the "remember password" setting.
>
> It's annoying, but at least it's consistent.

Yep! Though I think it might be nice to give an indication of *why* it's
happening.

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JR

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Mavericks Server auto-connect Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-28 03:57 +0000
  Re: Mavericks Server auto-connect billy@MIX.COM - 2014-01-30 16:20 +0000
    Re: Mavericks Server auto-connect Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-30 16:37 +0000
  Re: Mavericks Server auto-connect Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-01-30 19:27 +0100
    Re: Mavericks Server auto-connect Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-31 04:23 +0000
      Re: Mavericks Server auto-connect Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-01-31 09:48 +0100
        Re: Mavericks Server auto-connect Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-31 17:26 +0000
      Re: Mavericks Server auto-connect Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-31 12:16 +0000
        Re: Mavericks Server auto-connect Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-31 17:28 +0000

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