fixed : login to AmbraSoft online school training on an age restricted user account

Posted on 31-03-2015 by MacManus.nl

Question :

Our children have a restricted ‘parental guidance’ user account on our old MacBook running MacOSX 10.6 Snow Leopard. Just the other day, they got an activation code for the AmbraSoft online learning system (called “Ambrasoft Home via School”).

We tried to run the online module (a.k.a. ‘the website’) on their MacBook (in their user account), but it didn’t run…

…what can we do ?

Answer :

Good thing your children are on a restricted ‘parental guidance’ use account.

The only thing you need to do is give their user account access to the website running the login for AmbraSoft (it’s not on the AmbraSoft website itself… that’s the problem…)

Here’s how to :

1- open Safari and enter this URL :

http://www.ambrasoft.nl

2- then click the button “Direct inloggen” (“Login straight away”) and you will be transferred to this website :

https://familiepakket.mijnklas.nl/Login

3- then click on the pink button named “AmbraSoft thuis via school” (“AmbraSoft Home via School”) and you will be transferred to this URL :

https://www.mijnklas.nl/homeuse/login

4- type your login name and your password and click on the blue button “Inloggen” (“Login”) and you should be transferred to this URL :

https://www.mijnklas.nl/Bedroom

…instead, you will get an error since login failed

5- if you’re using Safari 5.1.x you should now go to “Venster” (“Window”) in the top menu bar and then select “Activiteitenoverzicht” (“Activity Display”)

if you’re using Safari 8.x you should now go to “Develop”, then to “Show Web Inspector” and then select “Bedroom” and “Images” ; there you will see al lot of PNG-images that come from a URL that looks like this : xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.cloudfront.net/AmbraSoftContent/

6- in the window that opens (in Safari 5.1.x), you will see a lot of URLs listed, all starting out similar to this :

https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.cloudfront.net/AmbraSoftContent/Web/

in which xxxxxxxxxxxxxx is a code containing both letters and numbers

7- write down the URL you are finding

8- then, open the System Preferences, click on the padlock in the bottom bar, and type your administrator login and password ; then select your children’s user account and click on the “Web” tab

9- make sure the checkmark is in the “Restrict access to websites using explicit materials, then click on the “Adjust…”-button and a pulldown window will open

10- in the upper part (“always allow access to these websites”) click on the plus-sign button and you will get an empty line

11- in that line, type the URL you have previously written down and that looks like this :

https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.cloudfront.net/AmbraSoftContent/Web/

12- then click the “OK”-button and exit the System Preferences

13- then go back to Safari and open this URL :

https://www.mijnklas.nl/Bedroom

14- now you will be able to login and you can start working in Ambrasoft online

that’s it 😉

enjoy !

fixed : “ssl peer shut down incorrectly”-error when updating Minecraft

Posted on 11-03-2014 by MacManus.nl

Question :

When trying to update the Mac-version of Minecraft, I get this error :

ssl peer shut down incorrectly

I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong… my internet-conection is working and everything else seems to be running just fine…

How can I get Minecraft to update properly ?

Answer :

Using the solution described in this post will almost certainly solve your updating problem.

enjoy !

😉

fixed : update Minecraft on restricted user account

Posted on 11-03-2014 by MacManus.nl

Question :

I have installed the Minecraft game (Mac version) for my children. But, on my Mac, the account of my children is an account with ‘parental guidance’ restrictions, not a full administrator account. Now every time there is an update of Minecraft, I have to log in to the (main) administrator account, turn administrator rights for the children’s account back on, log in on the (now administrator) children’s account run and update Minecraft there, then log out of that account, log back in as the main administrator, turn ‘parental guidance’ back on for the children’s account, reset all restrictions manually (they can’t be save or restored from the previous time…), then log out of the main administrator account again and log in using the (now restricted) children’s account and run Minecraft again. If I don’t do it like that, I get all kinds of error messages, and I can’t update. This is an extremely annoying procedure…

…isn’t there any way to do these updates more conveniently ?

Answer :

To allow Minecraft updates to managed user accounts in OSX, do the following :

(Note : this will also fix the “ssl peer shut down incorrectly”-error)

1- go to System Preferences –> Accounts

2- click on the padlock icon (bottom left) and type the Administrator name & password

3- then select the managed account and click “Open Parental Controls”

4- then, (when “Limit Applications” is checked) allow these apps for the managed user account :

in “Other Apps” :

– Applet Launcher

– Java VisualVM

– MinecraftLauncher

and in “Utilities” :

– Java Preferences

5- then, click on the “Logs…”-button

in the window that opens, select “Websites Blocked” and click on “Amazonaws”, than for each “Unknown” listed under “Amazonaws”, click the “Allow”-button that appears when “Unknown” is selected

6- then click “Done” to exit back to the “Parental Controls”-window,

7- click on the “Web”-tab there, “Try to limit…” will be selected, leave that as is, and click on the “Customize”-button

8- then, at “Always allow these websites:” click on the plussign-button and add this URL :

https://libraries.minecraft.net

9- then click “OK” to exit and quit System Preferences

10- then startup Minecraft (the Minecraft Launcher app), wait for the update to download and login using your eMail-address as your login-name (using your Minecraft nickname seems not to work…)

11- if the first login attempt doesn’t succeed, try again

…and even if the second and third login attempts do not succeed either, try again

…finally, the login (using the same eMail-address and password) will succeed…

that’s it !

enjoy !

😉

fixed : change shortname and Home folder name in OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion

Posted on 14-09-2013 by MacManus.nl

Question :

I have imported all data from our old Mac to our new Mac, but the on the new Mac I want to use a different account name than the one that was coupled to the account on the old Mac. To do so, I have to change the Account Name, the Short Name and the Home Folder Name.

Changing the Account Name and the Home Folder Name is easy, but if I only change those two, things get messed up completely…

I can’t find a way to change the Short Name also.

How do I do that ?

Answer :

It’s rather easy to change the account’s naming in OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion, but… exactly as you mentioned : if don’t do it exactly right, you’ll screw up your Mac completely…

Here’s a step-by-step guide to do it :

1- first & foremost : BACKUP ! make sure you start by making a complete backup of your Mac before you start this action ! (the easiest way to make backup is of course a Time Machine backup)

2- login on your Mac using an administrator account different than the account you want to change the name of (if you don’t already have such an second and/or administrator account on your Mac, just create one in the “Users & Groups” section of the System Preferences – you can delete it after the name change is complete)

3- now, go to Apple –> System Preferences –> Show All –> System –> Users & Groups

4- then, in the Users & Groups window that opens, click on the padlock icon (in the bottom left corner)

5- then, select the account you want to change in the list on the left side, and in the Password-tab on the right, at “Full Name:” type the new account name you want to use for this user account

6- then, right-click (or press CTRL while clicking) on the account you want to change in the list on the left side, and a small popup will appear saying “Advanced Options” ; click that

7- in the Advanced Options pull down window, read the WARNING first, then at “Account Name:” type the Short Name you want to use for the renamed account (let’s assume you want to rename to “newshortname” ; this name can’t have spaces in it !) and press OK

8- then, go to your Desktop, and press the SHIFT + CMD + C key-combo (or in the Finder go to Go –> Computers)

9- in the Finder window that opens, go to [Mac Hard Disk] –> Users and then select the (account) folder that has the old name you want to get rid of, and click on it’s name so it will light up ; then replace that name with the new Short Name you want to use (so “newshortname” as we called it before)

Note : it’s hard to believe it’s so easy to change these folder names, as you can mess up your entire Mac in doing so…

10- then go back to Apple –> System Preferences –> Users & Groups, and right-click (CTRL-click) on the account name you’ve just changed a few moments ago, and select “Advanced Options”

11- then, in the “Advanced Options” pulldown menu go to “Home Directory:” and change the “/Users/oldshortname” to “/User/newshortname” and press OK

12- now go to Apple –> Log Out… and login using the renamed account (if you want you can now delete the temporary Administrator-account you had made in System Preferences –> Users & Groups)

That’s it…

Enjoy !

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