Resetting Appleshare client login prefs
Oct 12, '01 02:25:58PM
Contributed by: Anonymous
Curious - changed the "Options.." for "AppleShare Client" for Mac OS X and not know how to return those settings to the defaults?
If you have played around with the options found behind the "Options.." button on the login screen for a server when using the Mac OS X Client, and can not log onto a server any more, or received the error message "-5002 Bad UAM," then you might find this helpful.
The options that can be changed in the Options dialog are:
- Add Password to Keychain
- Allow Clear Text Password
- Warn when sending password in cleartext
If any options are changed, and you are unable to return to this dialog to undo those changes, you can try the following. Go to your Keychain Access application, and remove your keychain entry for that and other volumes for that server.
If that does not work, please read the rest of this article for a couple of other options to restore the full functionality of the Connect to Server dialog box.
The second method (this is the only thing that worked for me) is more complicated
- Open the Users System Preference Panel.
- Create a new admin user for your machine.
- Logout, and login as this user.
- Go through the AppleShare Client process and log into a server.
- Now log out of this user.
- Log back in as yourself.
- Locate the file called com.apple.AppleShareClientCore.plist in the following path:
/Users/{new user}/Library/Preferences
- Copy this file to the exact same location in your user directory, replacing the existing file.
This will solve the problem of getting back to the "Options.." or preferences for the AppleShare Client.
Expert Mode:
The file called com.apple.AppleShareClientCore.plist has the preferences for the AppleShare Client. Simply deleting the file will not recreate the file with defaults. The default file contains the following options:<dict>
<key>addToKeychain</key>
<true/>
<key>defaultsSet</key>
<true/>
<key>displayServerMessage</key>
<true/>
<key>enableCleartextAuth</key>
<true/>
<key>warnIfCleartextAuth</key>
<true/>
</dict>
[Editor's caution: This portion of the submission was not entirely clear (due to a Geeklog-HTML bug) as to the exact content of the default file. I did my best to recreate it, but you'd be best off to print a stock one (from a new user, perhaps) as a double-check]
There are more options I am sure, but these are the only ones that are in this file by default. You can change the values that follow the tag pairs and change that option. Hope this help the next person get of troubleshooting for 4 hours straight!
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