Suddenly can't log in to Lion Server.app

This has helped me in the past: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3960

I can log in now too. But, now when I go to Users in the app I have 79 additional users and a total of 116 groups. Is this the way it is suppposed to be? Yikes. Help.

We had the same problem - server app opens now, but it shows 0 users. We use the Workgroup manager anyway, but ....

Please let us know if you fixed

zel, do you have the Show/Hide System Accounts option enabled under the View menu?

Beans. You are a genius. That fixed it. I wonder why that changed? Oh well. All is good now. Thanks Beans.

Thanks, it worked for me too!

Marshall, this worked beautifully. Thanks so much for posting this.

You're a lifesaver!

Hi There,

I am now having the same issue - can't log into Server App or Server Admin. In workgroup manager I can see that server admin is no longer a user but if I go to create I get messages saying that there is another user with same name.

I have run sudo launchctl list | grep -q com.apple.servermgrd && echo loaded || echo not loaded from terminal and he report back states that it is loaded.

I am now a bit stuck - any ideas?

Cheers

Stu

Stu

Mine has been fixed for several months but I can't remember exactly what I did.

Here is a link and a pict from a discussion that could help

Billy 🙂

Server App or Server Admin can't connect to a new Lion server

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3960

Stu

See the post I just put up on the discussion, hope this can help

Billy 🙂

Hi Billy,

Many thanks you are a star! This worked for me!

Cheers mate,

Stu

I just starter running into this. I can't log into Server.app. And ServerAdmin.app can't see the server, either, saying that it can't find it. Things were working in the past...

However, we did just change IP/Domain. We have a fixed IP from our ISP, but weren't using a specific domain name at first (i.e. we were using mac.example.private or some such). Then we got the domain name and told our ISP to configure the Internet's DNS servers with our fixed IP. Then we realized that we needed to configure rDNS so I had them do that. Now, I can't say when it broke exactly, as I didn't check between each of those last two steps.

Some things work (can VNC/ScreenShare, SSH into it, ping it, etc), but Server.app doesn't. I checked the two things mentioned in the thread above (whether the servermgr was loaded, and the .plist config file having the 'Disabled' field), but my server passes both of those tests (yes, its loaded, and the file doesn't have that field defined).

This is Lion 10.7.3 server.

Thanks,

J

So I picked up a client two months ago with a mac server (10.6.8). It had been sitting there un-used for 9 months. I created the network and configured services and users, in particular VPN. I got it all set up at the beginning of April. Mid-April I tested VPN again just to make sure it was working (it was).

Hadn't heard from them until today when they could not log into the CONSOLE. Not the app or whatnot, but the console. It shakes like a wrong password with the administrator user and does nothing with other users.

I was not able to VPN either but after a while I was able to and saw the symptoms myself via VNC. (I lost the VPN session and was no longer able to VPN back in.

I am able to SSH into the server with a user ID and SU to administrator (not able to ssh as administrator directly???).

I checked the update history and it has not had any updates since my work in April, nor is the command line update tool reporting any new updates available. So it has been running 10.6.8 for some time with no symptoms.

I checked the servermgrd is loaded.

Am I reading correctly that the resolution to the problem is upgrade the OS to 10.7.3 or newer????? And isn't that a paid upgrade? (seems fishy at best if that is the case). I don't see an OS update when I check system updates.

So they sit there with a $4000 server they can't do anything with. Help PLEASE?