Remote Desktop not working?
About two months ago I decided to change my administrator password on my server as I suspected the old password had been discovered. After I did this I naturally changed the password that Remote Desktop was using. After I did this I was unable to access the mini via Remote Desktop; it would tell me that authentication had failed. Neither the old nor the new password was working.
I connected a monitor to the mini and tried logging in directly. It too would not let me login, indicating the password was wrong. (It's perhaps worth noting that all of my user accounts on the server continued to work without any problems. It was only the administrative account that's an issue.)
I restarted from the OS X Server DVD and changed the administrative password from there, thinking that perhaps I entered it incorrectly. Once that was done I restarted - and still the mini wouldn't let me login either directly or through Remote Desktop. Now thinking that perhaps someone compromised my mini, I reformatted the drive and reinstalled OS X Server from scratch. I entered a new (third) completely unique administrative password. When it restarted I did nothing but enable Remote Desktop - and STILL I'm unable to login to it via Remote Desktop, always getting the "authentication failed" message.
I'm now hesitant to restart the mini since I want to be able to login to it. Does anyone have any idea *** is causing this issue?
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