Cannot connect via Server app

I have the same problem. I installed Lion on our Mac Pro system to run as as server and all was great up until this morning where it suddenly decided to not let me enter the Server App with any Administrator credentials.

i thought this may have been a keychain access error, so got the reset but still have same problem.

have two admins accounts set up on the directory but they wont allow either in. Just looks like it cannot connect...... to itself!!??

Soooo Frustrating!!

For what it's worth, I have seen the same thing. I upgraded two Mac mini servers on the same domain. I have this problem on the one that is the Domain Controller. The other server is accessible via Server.app.

Same here. I upgraded to lion server on day one and all was well. Logged in and out via server admin from the server itself and another machine with no problem. naturally I downloaded the new server admin app as well.

On day two I tried to login in and got a could not connect condition from the non-server machine when I tried to connect to it. So I logged into the server directly with to OS admin account and launched Server from there. At this point you are prompted to connect to "this" server or another. I chose the server I was on and got the password shudder trying to get into server admin.

No possibility of forgetting the password, it's the same one I use to log into the OS.

Could not get into it with the other admin account I had setup either.

Something is very wrong here.

In the same boat. I'm glad I'm not crazy. It's as if the Server forgot my credential, which seems a bit backward.

Particulars are that this is a brand new Mac Mini Core i7 virgin system, no crazy configurations. One moment I'm happily exploring the new interface, log out, then 15 minutes later, won't except my credentials.

Severely frustrated.

Really looking forward to hearing the solution.

-Patrick

Me too. At some point within an hour or two of the upgrade, I can no longer login to the Server app.

Wonder if they are using a date time component to encrypt with but grabbing a new date time to decrypt?

Exactly same here.

Some one should submit a bug reporter to Apple for the issus.

If no one has already done it, I will.

Aha! I checked the process list for servermgrd and discovered that it is not running. Needed to restart it from the command-line with:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.servermgrd.plist

It's letting me in now!

I had exatly the same problem which is solved by your hint. Thank you very much! There is one thing which had changed compared to the initial Servermgrd start. Now I see the system wide users and groups before I only saw the users and groups I configured. Do you know a possibility to change the default view? But this is only a minor 'issue'.

I found it. There is an option in the server app to blind out systemaccounts.

Ugh, this fix didn't work for me, either! ****, I did not have this error until this afternoon when I went back to the crap server to see why network Time Machines stopped. I couldn't login. So now I'm rebooting the server hoping that will fix this. Why should I ever have to reboot a server??

This isn't the problem we are talking about. Which storage system do you use for Time Machine backup purpose? Maybe a Drobo? If that's the case you have to install Drobo Dashboard 2.0.3 for Lion compatibility.