Why does my macbook connect to my desktop mac?

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Betty Rogers Author

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Why does my macbook connect to my desktop mac?

HI,

I have a mac desktop and a macbook on my wifi network, using a Time capsule-base station.

On the macbook, under Network, I can see my desktop mac name.

When I select Connect to the desktop, it dies not ask me for a password, why not?

How do I get it to require a user/password?

The desktop has FileSharing/AFP enabled but only for me as the user.

The macbook connects automatically when I select the desktop in Network and it shows my home directory and the hard disk.

I have another, related, question: I also have Remote Management enabled on the desktop and again setup with only myselk as the user.

When I select Share Screen on the macbook (share desktop screen), it opens right up and provides control... WITHOUT ASKING FOR AUTHENTICATION.

HELP?

Thank you,

Betty R

Posted on Jul 1, 2015 5:25 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 1, 2015 11:02 AM in response to Betty Rogers

If you have both computers set up with the same account name (e.g. Betty) and the same password (e.g. pAssWord) or you are logging in with your AppleID on both devices, you will not have to enter your password when you are remoting into your desktop.

Alternatively, if you are using different usernames and passwords, then you may have saved the credentials for the desktop in your Keychain.

Cheers,

R

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Answer 2

Betty Rogers Author

Level 2

354 points

Jul 1, 2015 1:23 PM in response to wuffeemoz

THANK YOU so much for responding!

but i'm definitely not. and no keychain saving. different apple id and different user names and passwords on both machines and both machines have different names. same local network, of course. wifi Airport (from a Time Capsule).

more and new info:

HI,

i seem to have fixed most of my issues with an os update. (i updated the macbook to Yosemite and it asks for user-pass every time now.)

i still have have an old 10.5.8 machine that shows up twice in my yosemite macbooks Sharing sidebar.

the machine shows up once in the list as the name (only) i manually assigned the machine long ago, the second occurance is listed as "insert_name-2.local".

i think it's "advertising" itself twice on the network? filesharing is enabled for AFP and incan't anywhere that Bonjour would be turned on...i see no Bonjour.

any ideas on how to get it down to listing itself once only?

thanks in advance,

Betty R

UPDATE: it doesn't do it now. hmmm. ok, fixed i guess! thank you very much! :-)

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Answer 3

Betty Rogers Author

Level 2

354 points

Jul 1, 2015 3:11 PM in response to Betty Rogers

ok, i see that the "desktop-2.local" in the sidebar is the one that comes and goes. after a restart to both machines, it's back.

if you go to macbook Go menu Connect to Server... there is a small dropbox in that connection window...in that small drop-down the "desktop-2.local" does not appear, just "Desktop" its name, and another server (disk) i have.

weird.

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