→ → Can I use Duet as the only display for my Mac? Yes, the iPad (or iPhone) can act as the only display for a Mac. Setup To setup Duet to display as the only screen, first install Duet's Mac application with another display and then disable your account login screen.

This step is necessary because Duet is not able to load until after the login screen. With this setting the Duet Mac app will load when waking the computer from sleep, during startup or after a restart.

To do this go to System Preferences Security & Privacy uncheck the box 'Disable automatic login'. Then go to Users & Groups and click Login Options and select Automatic Login: On Troubleshooting If you have any issues with Duet connecting at startup or after waking from sleep please check that 'Launch at Login' is enabled in Duet's menu bar app preferences and that Duet is a login item in System Preferences Users & Groups Login Items. If Duet is not present as a Login Item, enable it in Duet's Mac app preferences and log out or restart your Mac to add it back.

OS X will prevent automatic login if you have FileVault encryption enabled (found in System Preferences Security & Privacy FileVault) or iCloud Keychain enabled (found in System Preferences iCloud uncheck Keychain. If you are still not able to login you may need to purchase a monitor dongle. Some older Mac and Mac Mini models require a physical connection to be registered in order to startup and login. For more info please check this link: Alternative Login Option for Additional Security If you are security conscious and want to use a password, you can use OS X's Name and Password login to login with only keyboard input. Warning you will not be able to see the display until after you've logged in successfully. System Preferences Users & Groups Login Options (click the Lock to make changes) change to Name and Password login. Type your username and then hit tab 2.

Type your password and then press enter to login.

I have people use OWA. Newer Macs do it fine when they 'connect to server', and maybe at login time. At least they do in 10.6. I also have.command files out on my network shares for people that contain the following. Smbpasswd -r DOMAINCONTROLLERNAME -U USERSLOGINNAME Since in 10.5 they get told their password will expire, they can go out and run the command file.

Typically I have to walk through it once with a person, since there's no echo on the password entry. People also don't read and realize that they need to input their current password first. Just proof of their attention to detail, eh? If you're lucky though, people will just use OWA or they're on 10.6. We have a lot of customers use our product for allowing Mac users to change their own AD passwords.

Not free, but very reasonably priced. It is web based software that has a User Change Password page. Screenshot of Change Password page You can email or add a intranet direct link to the Change Password page. Example: Or use a custom url that includes the username.

The custom url works well if you use Practical Password Reminder in conjunction with Practical Password Reset. You can modify the Reminder emails to have a link to the user Change Password page where the username will be auto populated. Example: Tim Practical Design Group, LLC. David1618 wrote: I have people use OWA. Newer Macs do it fine when they 'connect to server', and maybe at login time.

At least they do in 10.6. I also have.command files out on my network shares for people that contain the following.

Smbpasswd -r DOMAINCONTROLLERNAME -U USERSLOGINNAME Since in 10.5 they get told their password will expire, they can go out and run the command file. Typically I have to walk through it once with a person, since there's no echo on the password entry. People also don't read and realize that they need to input their current password first.

Just proof of their attention to detail, eh? If you're lucky though, people will just use OWA or they're on 10.6. This is the REAL best answer! What if the mac isn't on the domain?

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The'best answer' selected seems to assume that it is. Not sure if this should be a new topic or an extension of this discussion, but I just had a user follow the instructions at this link: Now their login password has changed, however, they no longer have updated email lists in outlook, no access to network resources, and can only utilize applications stored on the hard drive. All requests to change passwords are bounced back as if the password entered his incorrect.

When attempting to log onto network files server. We are getting a 'password on server needs to be changed, but we are unable to update that password. We are a PC office and this is the only Mac we have here. No one here is familiar with Mac OS, and our graphic artist is dead in the water.

I believe that what you should do now is to login to OWA and change your password there to match whatever you changed it to using the ias.edu helpdesk page. I didn't study it in too much detail, but it appeared that they were walking you through changing the password on the local machine for that user account.

Also, to note. Between step 2 and 3, there's something missed, as the Mac's Users & Groups system preferences area should require, I believe, one more step to get to changing a password. CAGMike do you have your Macs setup to use mobile accounts using Open Directory? There's plusses and minuses to this approach.

Thanks for the reply David. Honestly, I am not a Mac guy. This is the only Macbook we have in the entire company, so I don't get to do a lot with it. I really have no idea how this Mac is configured, or how to verify it.

In an 'out of the box' wild idea, I had the user shut down the Mac, I reset their password in AD again, then had them log into a PC workstation and update the AD password that way. When they logged back into the Mac, hey presto! Everything now works! Not conventional, but, what the heck. Thanks again for the reply. I'm not a Mac guy, but we've got 10 Mac users in our 40 user network, so I'm forced to learn a bit of it. It is very difficult though.

The Mac OS is great, but mostly by itself. When you bring in active directory, or any sort of file sharing, there's problems. It does seem that when Mac users share files amongst themselves that they don't have the same file locking type issues that the PC users have.

It is a shame that Microsoft doesn't open their file sharing protocol to allow other vendors to more fully support clients to the Microsoft servers. That network client alone is my main reason for disliking them. The other issue I've got is that there's so many fewer Macs out there that internet support is also very thin, and AppleCare's really only worth a crap if you have a hardware problem.

The times I've contacted Apple support for anything beyond hardware problems they never know what to do aside from reinstall. A mixed environment just doesn't make sense unless you're doing some video editing. There's just nothing Macs do that PCs don't, and that's just because Apple bought the premier video editing app and stopped producing a PC version of it.

So, I am facing the problem in a different manner. My couple of iMacs (I don't have a choice, one is the CEO's and he loves Apple so I'm stuck fighting the fight) are not on the domain but they have to connect to shared folders on our file server which is controlled by AD. When they get the notification about the password, it just says, You need to change your password.blah blah blah, and they don't have the option to do it. Is there a work around for this or am I (the IT guy) stuck going in for them every 90 days to change it (or just disabling it for now), and then when I'm not around when it happens, I get chewed out. Any help would be great!

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None of these answers except the very first are correct in addressing the proper method for mac users, because none take into consideration the mac 'keychain' utility. The keychain utility stores passwords, and is created when you create a user account, it uses the same password as the account. When you log into the mac, the keychain is unlocked, because the passwords are the same. If a mac is bound to AD using the directory utility found in /System/Library/coreservices then changing the password should ONLY be done by logging into the mac, (ignoring the login nag screen reminding you to change your password) and opening system preferences and then Users, clicking 'change password' to the right of the user account. This will then update the users keychain. If you have a laptop and the password is cached and changed using OWA (not recommended, for the reasons above) on laptop log out of all accounts, connect the laptop to the domain using ethernet or wifi and log into the mac using the up to date password at the 'Other' login on the login screen. This will authenticate using the correct up top date password and then transfer the user to the existing home folder, fixing the cached password issue.