[iBook] Unable to create a Guest account

Miche Doherty miche at beeb.net
Mon May 8 13:44:37 PDT 2006


On May 8, 2006, at 8:17 pm, Raymond P Reedy wrote:

> I have an iBook (700Mhz G3).  I am unable to create an account with 
> the name Guest. I get a message in red that reads, "Name is not 
> available."

That username seems to be reserved, for some reason, at least as far as 
the short name is concerned. I have an account on my machine (running 
10.3.9) with the name "Guest" and the short name "guestuser". (Yeah, 
the short name doesn't *have* to be shorter...)

Miche.



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