I'm always more comfortable with second party explanations than with
fumbling around the Help menus, so I'm asking......

With the concept of adding users to a (my) OS10.3.7 machine:
If I add a user, with limited access to most files, do I then have to
log in every time I start the machine, as opposed to now it just starts
up as me? or can I have it always start as me, but then I switch it to
user2 before letting someone else use the machine?

Any help appreciated.

GW

In article <jsiKd.2937$d12.2766@twister.socal.rr.com>,
Geoff Welsh <geoffdubya@some.rr.com> wrote:

> I'm always more comfortable with second party explanations than with
> fumbling around the Help menus, so I'm asking......
>
> With the concept of adding users to a (my) OS10.3.7 machine:
> If I add a user, with limited access to most files, do I then have to
> log in every time I start the machine, as opposed to now it just starts
> up as me? or can I have it always start as me, but then I switch it to
> user2 before letting someone else use the machine?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> GW

System Preferences -> Accounts -> Login Options...

You specify "Automaatically Login as [.........]" if that is what you
want Mac OS X to do.

You also go there to enable "Fast User Switching"

Bob Harris

Bob Harris wrote:

> In article <jsiKd.2937$d12.2766@twister.socal.rr.com>,
> Geoff Welsh <geoffdubya@some.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>If I add a user, with limited access to most files, do I then have to
>>log in every time I start the machine or can I have it always start as me, but then I switch it to
>>user2 before letting someone else use the machine?
>>
>>GW
>
>
> System Preferences -> Accounts -> Login Options...
>
> You specify "Automaatically Login as [.........]" if that is what you
> want Mac OS X to do.
>
> You also go there to enable "Fast User Switching"
>
> Bob Harris

Excellent! I am up and running with the whole set-up.
Thanx.
I now just have to get used to seeing my name at the top right of the
screen, (bumping the time over an inch to the left).
GW

Geoff Welsh wrote:

> I now just have to get used to seeing my name at the top right of the
> screen, (bumping the time over an inch to the left).
> GW

speaking of which.....
It would appear that if my user name is ten characters long, which it
is, then when I switch back and forth to different applications that I
am running, the Apple top menu bar gets screwy with losing the volume
control and losing the Classic icon, and the like, (if the application
has enough selections in the top menu bar that my screen runs out of room).
Everyone else have that happening??

I have "fixed" that problem by shortening my user name to my initials.
GW

In article <JsmKd.4$Kl.1@twister.socal.rr.com>,
Geoff Welsh <geoffdubya@some.rr.com> wrote:

> Geoff Welsh wrote:
>
> > I now just have to get used to seeing my name at the top right of the
> > screen, (bumping the time over an inch to the left).
> > GW
>
> speaking of which.....
> It would appear that if my user name is ten characters long, which it
> is, then when I switch back and forth to different applications that I
> am running, the Apple top menu bar gets screwy with losing the volume
> control and losing the Classic icon, and the like, (if the application
> has enough selections in the top menu bar that my screen runs out of room).
> Everyone else have that happening??
>
> I have "fixed" that problem by shortening my user name to my initials.
> GW

Yup! I have an iBook and I have Meteorologist, SlimBatteryMonitor,
MenuMeters (Comm & CPU), VPN icon, Airport icon, time & date on my menu
bar. Menus have a higher priority, so if the stuff on the left needs
more room the above items start to disappear.

Add in Fast User switching and your username just push the right hand
items further to the left and cause overlap just that much sooner.

Some of the right hand menu items can be reordered by holding down the
Command key (Apple key or clover leaf key) while doing a click and drag
on the menu icon.

Mostly if I want to see something that has been hidden by a long list of
menu items in an app, I'll just switch to a different App with a shorter
list of menu items

Bob Harris

Bob Harris wrote:
>>Geoff Welsh wrote:
>>
>>It would appear that when I switch back and forth to different applications that I
>>am running, the Apple top menu bar gets screwy with losing the volume
>>control and losing the Classic icon, and the like,
>
> Yup! I have an iBook ..... Menus have a higher priority, so if the stuff on the left needs
> more room the above items start to disappear.
>
> Some of the right hand menu items can be reordered by holding down the
> Command key while doing a click and drag on the menu icon.

whoa! Cool trick. I didn't know that one.
Thanks
GW