Odd login errors.

[Quentin Mason]

Peter,

I am not sure what your general login problem is, but I do not think that
it is related to Mathemtica.  [Are you logging in locally or is your
laptop autheticating to something else -- I guess you are in an edu given
you use mathematica].  Although I have not got mathematica in OSX (still
on OS8.6 and more of a maple user) it does not surprise me as I have had
problems with Mathematica on i686 laptops and changing ethernet cards.

Look at the recent messages about MAC (hardware ethernet) address, tun and
iTunes.  Mathematica seeds its ID (and hence license) from your MAC (you
can check this by changing your MAC(s) by eg adding a pcmcia ethernet
controller and asking mathematica what your new "ID" is) -- MOL does NOT
get the original MAC because linux is using it and the way that
virtualised networking works.  If necassary you can contact mathematica
and give them the MAC address (ie the new ID that mathematica gets using
your new MAC as a seed) for Panther inside MOL and tell them it comes from
your "recently purchased wireless card" and they should give you another
license to use inside MOL (I know this works on lintel laptops).  I
believe that there is some facility for changing the MAC addresses given
to Panther, if necassary by changing the code and re-compiling.  There are
lists of which MAC's go with which manufacturers of ethernet/wireless
ethernet cards -- you may want to give Panther one of those so Mathematica
(very picky bastards who make overly expensive software IMHO) will not get
too suspicious -- I am not sure whether they can back-track these things.  

Good luck,

Q.

PS: atleast one of the mathematica releases was available for ppc-linux
though I do not remember which -- I have a feeling they stopped when OSX 
came out.



> Hello.  I've recently installed MoL.  I followed the documentation and 
> it's worked out well for me.  I have one error that keeps me from 
> running at least one application correctly.  When attempting to log into 
> Panther, I receive the following error, "You cannot continue logging in 
> at this time.  There is a problem that prevents you from logging in at 
> this time.  Please see your administrator for help".  When I acknowledge 
> the error message, Panther continues to let me login just fine.
> 
> My particular problem is that Mathematica believes that it's never 
> received my license number/registration and behaves like a new install.  
> There be other apps that behave like this but I haven't found them yet.  
> I've searched the mailing list extensively and I could not find an error 
> even close to this. 
> 
> Any help would very much appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> Peter
> 
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