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"Connection Failed." when signing in to Mac App Store

Since updating to 10.6.6 I have never been able to sign in to the Mac App Store from my iMac. When I enter the username and password in the sign in form I get back the message "Connection Failed." Usually takes less than a second to give the error although on rare occasion 2-3 seconds.

On my MBP I can can connect fine and have had no problems with the account.

Following advice from various forums ... I have rebooted lots. I have re-installed the 10.6.6 Update Combo. I have ran Repair Permissions more times than I care to remember. I have played around with Certificate settings in Keychain. I have gone in and out of iTunes. I have tried other iTunes accounts.

As far as I can tell I've tried pretty much everything I can find listed on forums about issues with Mac App Store connections.

Please help - I really really want to be able to use Mac App Store on my iMac.

Thanks!
G

iMac 8,1, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo - 2 GB

Posted on Jan 21, 2011 4:46 PM

20 replies

alimacc

Level 1

8 points

Oct 26, 2011 3:45 AM in response to call-151

This worked... Signing out and in did nothing... for me I could download standard type apps but when trying to get OS X Lion it just sat all day trying to connect and never went beyond the get app status.

None of my certificates had a red X beside them but I applied allow always to the top class 3 paublc one and it worked.

OS X Lion on it's way down now.

wroammmm

Level 1

0 points

Nov 6, 2011 10:22 AM in response to Gary C Johnson

Problem was the same here.

The solution was to switch off Little Snitch, it is not enough to allow connections for App Store.

After this it works fine, have connection.

Dec 25, 2011 10:30 AM in response to Gary C Johnson

Well looks like the app store is having problems again, hopefully the server is just down.

aarun

Level 1

0 points

Dec 25, 2011 12:48 PM in response to brokenmac29

I have the same problem too on mac app store and itunes...

anyone else?

rwhitely

Level 1

0 points

Jul 28, 2012 12:56 AM in response to Gary C Johnson

I have just had a similar problem and tried all of these solutions (thank you everyone) before I looked up to check the time and discovered that the Date and Time were incorrectly set on the MacBook - it's one Im reconfiguring with Mountain Lion for school. I reset Date and Time in the System Preferences and I was immediately able to log in.

"Connection Failed." when signing in to Mac App Store