I just upgraded to macOS High Sierra and now I am not able to login using network account. However, I am able to unlock the FileVault2 volume using the old credentials but then it asks for credentials again. On login screen, I see a red dot beside username saying network accounts are unavailable I have two accounts on my machine.
One network account with admin privileges and a local account with standard privileges. I am able to login using local account but not with the network account. I have FileVault recovery keys, will it help?
It is not a problem and it does not search for network unless you prompt it to. Only if you click the AirPort menu bar item to look at the list of networks will it start searching to show you what is out there, since it rightly so assumes you wanted to search for networks. Some Mac users are reporting wi-fi difficulties after updating to macOS Sierra 10.12. The most common wireless networking problems seem to be either randomly dropping wi-fi connections after updating to macOS Sierra, or an unusually slow or delayed wi-fi experience after updating a Mac to Sierra 10.
I am using MacBook Pro mid 2015 series. You will still need local and Active Directory administrator account for this to work, but here's the exact steps I took to fix this issue. Login with local administrator account. Go to System Preferences Users & Groups.
Press Login Options Unlock Press Edit near Network Account Server Open Directory Utility Unlock Select Active Directory and press 'Edit settings for the selected service' button at the bottom Unbind Enter Active Directory administrator credentials and finish the unbinding process. Close Directory Utility and reboot the computer. Repeat steps 1 and 2. Press Join near Network Account Server. Enter your domain (ad.example.com) and Active Directory administrator credentials. Assuming your AD account is not entirely network account (created on your local system and you can use it without network access) you should also set settings in 8-10 steps.
Optional Step - Go to System Preferences Users & Groups. Optional Step - Login Options Unlock Press Edit on Network Account Server Open Directory Utility Unlock Select Active Directory and press 'Edit settings for the selected service' button at the bottom. Optional Step - Press Show more Check 'Create mobile login at login' Uncheck 'Require confirmation before creating a mobile account'. Log out (may need another reboot).
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Login with network account by selecting the user from the list or using your name on password (depends on 'Display login windows as' setting). This is how I fix it Today I met a strange problem. After I enter my password, the progress bar runs to the end, and it is stuck there forever. No matter how many times I try to restart. I finally need to go to by pressing Cmd+R at start up.
I then select Get Help Online to open Safari. Strangely enough I wasn't connected to Internet After select the wifi icon on the status bar to connect internet, I then restart and can login again.
It seems that macOS is checking for something before allowing user to login. It appears that the main issue is in the empty local cache of network accounts after upgrade to High Sierra.
I love the answer by earnestasen and wish I had thought of that. I did yet a third thing to solve this. I logged in as a local admin, created a new local account, logged in to that account, connected to AD subnet (since I’m remote) via the VPN (which took some doing to get my VPN profile in this temp’ user account), then once connected, I did fast user switching to my domain account, and it worked. I rebooted to test it and was able to log straight in again afterward. I was momnetarily panicked that I’d orphaned my account, or would need to fly to SFO to be on the LAN for all of 3 minutes to solve this, but in the end was able to solve this with only a couple hours of downtime.
I then removed the temp’ user and am whole again. The solution which worked for me. System Preferences Users & Groups Click the padlock and enter the admin password Login Options Edit the Network Account Server to open the Directory Utility Click the padlock and enter the admin password (again.) Select Active Directory and click the pencil to edit Enter the admin password (again.!) Click the drop-down arrow by 'Show options' Select the Administrative 'tab' Ensure the 'Prefer this domain server:' and 'Allow administration by:' options are ticked. Add the relevant user into the list for admin rights. OK everything and reboot. Not sure why the OS upgrade from Sierra to Mojave would have de-selected these options but there you go.
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Wi-Fi hotpots: As convenient as they are, they can be very annoying, as well. Especially when you're using a Mac or iPhone that's trying to connect to a hotspot when you don't want it to.
Macworld reader Martin Joseph wants to ditch one company's Wi-Fi hotspot in particular: I wonder if you can figure out a way to set a Mac to never ever connect to Xfinity Wi-Fi? It would be great to eliminate this in my iPhone, too.
I have found that deleting it from the list of known networks isn’t the best choice, and I usually resort to leaving it, but at lowest priority. Apple's Wi-Fi network control in macOS became kind of primitive many releases ago, and then Apple made it worse, removing a few features that haven't returned. You can delete networks, as Martin notes:. Open the Network system preference pane. Click your Wi-Fi entry in the adapter list at left. Click the Advanced button. In the Wi-Fi tab, select a network or networks you want to remove, and click the minus (-) sign.
Click OK, and then click Apply. You can also rearrange connection priority in step 4, so that you put preferred networks on top. This scrolling list can wind up with hundreds of entries, as they collect over time, and there's no way to search through the list, see when the network was added, get geographic information about them, or any other data. What Martin might be encountering is iCloud-based sync for Wi-Fi network entries. If you have iCloud Keychain enabled, every Mac and iOS device logged into the same iCloud account syncs all Wi-Fi network passwords. You may have noticed this if you log in to a hotspot at a cafe that has a password on your Mac, and then turn to an iPhone—it's already synced the password over the cellular network, and has connected to the local network.
However, it's possible that deleting network entries from macOS doesn't remove the corresponding Keychain entries that are being synced, and thus when an iPhone connects to an Xfinity network, the connection details are synced back. (Xfinity uses a web-based login process, but I believe Apple passes that information to its hotspot login system, which intercepts portal screens and fills them with stored information.) IDG Keychain Access lets you peer into stored passwords for logins, including for Wi-Fi portals. A way to test this and potentially solve this persistent problem is to use Keychain Access in macOS, as you can't manage Keychain entries directly in iOS.
(You can 'forget' a network via Settings Wi-Fi tap a network in the vicinity and then tap Forget This Network and confirm. But it may not delete the Keychain entry, either.) Follow these steps:.
Launch Keychain Access (found in Applications Utilities). Search for the network name (like xinifity). Select the entry or entries and select Edit Delete. Confirm the deletion. Now return to the Network preference pane and follow all the steps above to be sure the entry doesn't persist, either. It's possible this is just an iCloud Keychain sync issue, but there's no harm in cleaning out unwanted entries in Keychain Access, either. Ask Mac 911 We’ve compiled a list of the questions we get asked most frequently along with answers and links to columns: to see if your question is covered.
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