Invalid username and password combination woes

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Invalid username and password combination woes

Before I do what I think I am supposed to do... I wanted to run this by you guys first to make sure incase someone found a way. I wish i didn't have to do this but...

I have a Mac on our domain running 10.6.6. It had a seizure of some kind and i was forced to cold boot it. We got it back up and running and to the login screen, but when we tried logging in to it, the login in screen just shook. No matter what AD account i tried logging in with, SHAKE! SHAKE! SHAKE

The next thing i decided to do was unbind and rebind the Mac thinking maybe it had something to do with that. NO GOOD. Not only did I get an error that the Mac could not unbind from our domain, but now, no matter what account i use to try and rebind the mac, I get the dreaded: invalid username and password combination error. WHEN I KNOW THAT'S NOT THE CASE!

Anyone know how to fix this OTHER THAN downgrading to a version of 10.6.x that CAN bind? If that's even a option?

??

Thanks!

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6), Active Directory on the Mac SUCKS!!! It always has...

Posted on Feb 17, 2011 9:48 AM

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Marc Monaro Author

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Feb 18, 2011 8:53 AM in response to Marc Monaro

COME ON! You've got to be kidding me?

NO ONE HAS EVER EXPERIENCED THIS ERROR?!?

Here, I'll rephrase it...

How do you fix the dreaded, 'INVALID USERNAME AND PASSWORD COMBINATION' when trying to bind a 10.6.6 Mac to Active Directory when you know the username and password are correct?

Thanks!

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Kappy

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Feb 18, 2011 11:36 AM in response to Marc Monaro

See Special Report- Active Directory Issues with Mac OS X Leopard. Also do a Google search where I found quite a number of links to discussions some of which offered possible solutions.

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baltwo

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Feb 18, 2011 2:48 PM in response to Marc Monaro

Ultimately, sounds like something for MS to resolve.

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NoMacs

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Apr 1, 2011 10:28 AM in response to baltwo

Why is that always any Apple support person or Mac users answer? It's a Microsoft problem. How can it be, I have 20 macs connected to the same network. The mac having the problem has been successfully working for 3 months. It started shaking when the user came in and in the troubleshooting process we removed it and are trying to rejoin it backl on to a domain it has been working on for months and 19 other machines are still working on. How is this a microsoft problem? Please enlightne me? If it sounds like I am frustrated, I apologize, but I AM!

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NoMacs

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Apr 1, 2011 10:55 AM in response to NoMacs

By the way, if you come across this problem, run the following commands at a console prompt (terminal).

sudo rm -rdfv /Library/Preferences/DirectoryService
sudo rm -rdfv /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config
sudo killall DirectoryService

Then try to Rebind client.
This fixed it for me and I didn't have to do anything to my AD Microsoft server.

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Marc Monaro Author

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Apr 13, 2011 7:17 AM in response to NoMacs

NoMacs, I didn't get a chance to try this.
In the end, I had to reinstall the system from disc.
From 10.6.6 back down to 10.6.4. Once I did that, i was able to bind.
Upgraded back to 10.6.6 and now 10.6.7, and so far so good.
If and when this happens again, I'll definitely try your little fix.
Thanks a bunch!

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cookied

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Apr 13, 2011 2:50 PM in response to NoMacs

Thanks NoMacs, resolved my issue.

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May 25, 2011 3:12 AM in response to NoMacs

This worked for me 😉 many thanks for the tip... I look after 400 + students and staff this has just started happening on some of our 10.6.7 clients.

Regards

Andy

Univeirsity of Gloucestershire

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Answer 9

Jun 16, 2011 6:47 AM in response to Marc Monaro

Just as an aside, if this crops up again, boot into Single User Mode and type in the date command to make sure the date and time are within five minutes of server time. If the time drift is outside five minutes, active directory won't authenticate. You can enter date hhmm in 24 hour format (3:14 pm would be 1514) to reset it.

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receng

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Jun 27, 2011 6:57 AM in response to NoMacs

Thanks NoMacs!!! Solved my issue too.

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F4st3ddy

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Sep 27, 2011 11:19 AM in response to Marc Monaro

The problem has been solved by running the commands on a 10.6.7 client.

Thanks!

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Feb 1, 2012 9:03 AM in response to Marc Monaro

NoMacs, thank you so much, this worked perfect. We are a school and have over 600 client machines about 50 of them Macs. We use a Windows 2008 Active Directory environment. Never had this problem before until today. A teacher brought me a macbook that would not login. All that I read online was that it was a MS issue, I knew that it had to be the machine because everything else including the other mac machines where fine.

Thank you for clearing this up.

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vargsa

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Mar 5, 2012 8:14 PM in response to NoMacs

NoMacs, this worked like a charm. Sat for several hours pulling my hair out trying to fix this and your terminal commands did the job. Thanks so much!

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fesheila

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Oct 9, 2012 9:59 AM in response to NoMacs

Thanks NoMacs! Worked like a charm!

😁

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SatanMAT

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Jul 9, 2013 2:58 PM in response to NoMacs

NoMacs! Thank you!

that is some deep magic you SOLVED my issue! 10.6.8 Xserve could not connect to AD no matter what I tried. darn "Invalid username and password combination".

Thank you! Sir, I owe you a beer.

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