ARRRGGHH Please help server 10.3.9. nightmare

orig_jane · #1 October 20th, 2009, 01:14 PM

Hi,
We have a mac server running 10.3.9. It was becoming slow, so in my infinite wisdom, i decided to restart the machine. Unfortunately, on doing this, it no longer accepts the login ID or password!! CAPS lock is not on.

Has anyone got any ideas, or do i have to reload it?

Thanks very much, am quite desperate as i am work (there are no mac guys here)!!

Jane

ElDiabloConCaca · #2 October 20th, 2009, 02:45 PM

Try resetting the admin account password by booting from the OS X Server Install CD/DVD:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1274

orig_jane · #3 October 20th, 2009, 03:05 PM

Cheers, will give that a go. Just out of interest, do you think that the password pref file has got corrupted?
Thanks once again.
Jane

ElDiabloConCaca · #4 October 20th, 2009, 03:09 PM

There is no "password" preference file. Mac OS X stores passwords in a NetInfo database.

It is possible, however unlikely, that the NetInfo database is corrupt in some way. Resetting the password or simply restoring from a backup should fix things.

orig_jane · #5 October 20th, 2009, 03:21 PM

Ahh, and thats why I ask people that know about these things!
Thanks ever so much, you have saved my skin!

icemanjc · #6 October 23rd, 2009, 09:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ElDiabloConCaca

There is no "password" preference file. Mac OS X stores passwords in a NetInfo database.

It is possible, however unlikely, that the NetInfo database is corrupt in some way. Resetting the password or simply restoring from a backup should fix things.

I kind of just had to mention that this seems to happen a lot to me with 10.5 server, where it messes up the username a lot. So what I do is log into the server using the user name "root" with the password you set and then resetting the stuff.