New Mac / Ventura won't let me log in to Snow Leopard Server

Very recently I got a new Mac - a 13.6" MacBook Air M2 with MacOS Ventura installed.

I have an old Mac Mini Server that runs MacOS X Snow Leopard Server, that I still use as a file sharing server for home (only three users). This server has worked flawlessly - and still does, as long as I log onto it from from either my old 2013 15" MacBook Pro Retina, or my son's 2017 13" Macbook Pro. Both of those run MacOS 10.14.6 Mojave. And I can log into all three user-accounts on the server from those machines.

When I try to log in to the server from my new Mac (or from my wife's 13" MacBook Air M1), it will not accept the user name / password combination for any of the user accounts on the server. I know that these name / password combinations are correct, as they work from the older MacBook Pro clients. Files on the server can be read from (and copied to) the newer MacBook Airs, as it is possible to connect to the server as guest, but we need to be able to write to the server as well, and that we cannot do, unless we can log in.

I don't know if this is due to new, incompatible hardware (M1 or M2-chip) or software (MacOS Ventura). Does anyone have any suggestions to what I could do? Preferably something that does not involve an investment in more new hardware.

MacBook Air (M2, 2023)

Posted on Sep 13, 2023 2:52 PM

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Barney-15E

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Sep 14, 2023 4:20 AM in response to seethelight

I’ve run into that occasionally also. The only thing I can imagine is that it tries so hard to use your Mac login credentials that it still uses them even when you tell it not to.

seethelight Author

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Dec 30, 2023 4:25 PM in response to seethelight

I kept trying different things - and now I can get the login window to appear, but if I enter either her or my credentials, they are just rejected with a shaking window. : (

seethelight Author

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Dec 31, 2023 10:14 AM in response to seethelight

I just checked here and it seems the newest OS that can run on that hardware is 10.13 High Sierra. Whether that's the best OS to use, I don't know.

Barney-15E

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Jan 3, 2024 7:31 PM in response to seethelight

You’d already seen this coming and wrote: “Using Terminal, you can set the Access Control Lists on the folders to allow all users to edit other user's documents.” Terminal commands are not my strong suit – can you please help me?

https://techion.com.au/blog/2018/6/9/share-with-directory-permission-inheritance

Your Group would be R and note that the commands extend off the right of the page (unless you have a really wide window).

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