MAC will not authenticate and log in network users, working with MAC server
I have a MAC workstation running 10.6 that is in a network environment with a MAC server. Everything was running fine for months until today, now this one computer will no longer allow network users to "authenticate" and log in. I have tried the following:
Ran Onyx to clean up files
Un-bound and re-bound the machine to the server
Performed a reinstall of the OS files from the MAC disk
The problem still persists. Of course I have ensured that there is good network connectivity and I can see the network and all network resources when logged in as the local administrator, I just can not get network users logged into this machine. We are using LDAP on the server to administer the accounts. Any ideas would greatly be appreciated.
Ran Onyx to clean up files
Un-bound and re-bound the machine to the server
Performed a reinstall of the OS files from the MAC disk
The problem still persists. Of course I have ensured that there is good network connectivity and I can see the network and all network resources when logged in as the local administrator, I just can not get network users logged into this machine. We are using LDAP on the server to administer the accounts. Any ideas would greatly be appreciated.
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Yes, I tried booting from the disk and doing a repair, unfortunately that did not work either. I can only think at this point it has something to do with the kerboros database getting corrupted somehow. I am going to try and fix the kerberos, but barring that, reinstall is the only thing that I can think should work.
A couple of things you can try.
Unbind the workstation from the server. Delete the file /Library/Preferences/edu.m
Check System Preferences>Accounts>Login
Make sure your time is synced to the same server on the workstation and server. Or at least, the time is within a few seconds of each other.
Unbind the workstation from the server. Delete the file /Library/Preferences/edu.m
Check System Preferences>Accounts>Login
Make sure your time is synced to the same server on the workstation and server. Or at least, the time is within a few seconds of each other.
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I have reloaded the MAC, erased the HDD first and did a clean reload. You may not believe this, but now I can not join it to the server now with the admin account. It will not allow the admin user and password to even talk to the server.
Something is wickedly wrong with this set up. I am out of ideas, and have tried all of the suggestions posted here and many others suggested by friends and colleagues.
Something is wickedly wrong with this set up. I am out of ideas, and have tried all of the suggestions posted here and many others suggested by friends and colleagues.
Try binding without authentication.
Here is some info from apple on authenticated binding. I do not require it on my server so I don't know much about it. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=ServerAdmin/10.5/en/c8od18.html
Here is some info from apple on authenticated binding. I do not require it on my server so I don't know much about it. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=ServerAdmin/10.5/en/c8od18.html
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This issue all stemmed from a bad cable, that for some reason caused the Kerberos database on the server to become corrupt and not allow this machine to log in.
Glad you got it.
We had this problem once and it was caused because we restarted a computer that we thought was hung up during a firmware update. It booted up okay, but you couldn't get anywhere. For us, our only solution was to redeploy the system image from the server.