[DigitalEl]

Just upgraded to Lion (mid-2008 C2D 4GB RAM) and can't get the Guest Account feature to work as advertised. It's one of the things I was most excited about, as my wife's friends and family are often asking to borrow the computer when visiting. Next thing I know, Amazon is showing me jewelry under its "More Items to Consider" section and vampire romance under "New For You."

I enabled Guest Accounts in System Preferences and used Parental Controls, I thought to lock things down. I just want guests to be able to use Safari or Chrome, Pages & Numbers, Text Edit, iCal and a few other basics. I specifically didn't want them in iLife or the App Store, etc.

No matter what settings I choose in Parental Controls, all those apps are in the Dock.

Additionally, every time a Guest Account opens, I get immediate error dialogues about "You don't have permission to open..." and it's one of the apps I wanted to restrict access to.

Maybe the above behavior is the way it's supposed to work. If so, it seems stupid... Not elegant. I'm surprised, but certainly not delighted.

[ibook_steve]

Guest account has been in since, I think, Leopard (10.5). Is there something new about it in Lion (which I haven't gone to yet)?

Steve

[DigitalEl]

I'm not sure whether the described behavior is new. I just discovered the feature. Hopefully, if the feature is that old, it's pretty well sorted out and the problems are just something I'm doing wrong.