[keston]

How come in the System Prefs: Accounts, for my main user the checkbox for "Allow User to log in from Windows" is disabled, but if i create a new account on the machine, it is checkable ?

Anyone else have the same problem? I'd like to access my main user share from the Windows box.

[Phanguye]

yea you are going to need to type in your password and hit return before you can check the box... that should do the trick

phang

ps i think this is the first time i have ever helped someone

[Sophus]

Originally posted by Phanguye:

ps i think this is the first time i have ever helped someone

Now that didn't hurt at all did it? And the world became a better place.....

[Brass]

That solution is certainly correct, in my experience.

BUT...

Does it strike anyone else as rather odd that you have to authenticate to change some settings for your own account, but you don't have to authenticate to change those settings on anyone elses account?

Seems ridiculous to me!

Oh, and apart from that, it's not at all obvious that this is how it works. Most of us just discovered it by trial and error.

[keston]

ok.. now I feel like an a$$ now that it was so simple. I am a techie user and i didnt get that, i guess i wasn't looking hard enough.

Thanks for the help 8)