Any apple admins here - Long shot

infernox · 10 Jan 2013 at 09:17

Problem, help.

One of our macs here has dropped full network connectivity.

So I plan on rebinding it to our AD domain and our Open Directory, but here is the problem.

When I was rebinding it with our admin account, it rebooted itself and locked me out of the account (administritivly).

Now its dropped all of its knowledge of our network from the mac and windows side, so I cannot push another account in from the Mac Server (as It cannot connect to it anymore), and wont even let me boot into Single User Mode, CMD+S does nothing.

Tried reseting the SMC, PRAM and got knows what else, but CMD+S still does nothing (no reaction from the mac, just boots straight in, no matter what keyboard I use, how many times I take the ram out and reset the PRAM)

Long shot I know.

Running Mac OSX 10.6.8, have disks and my Own mac for TDM if necessary,

Cheers guys.

infernox · 10 Jan 2013 at 09:31

I think I may have figured out the problem.

Command + S will not work when rEFIT is installed, so I am using target disk mode to delete the EFI folder on the root of the installation, will report back with my findings.

slinxy · 10 Jan 2013 at 09:48

I would remove the client from both directories.. as its picking up incorrect policies from somewhere. Then rebind it to the network.

try removing just one of the sticks of memory and powering it on to reset the firmware password on the machine, with a firmware password none of the hot keys will work during boot.

You can try ssh to the machine if its enabled to unlock the accounts.

Does target disk mode work? could it be a faulty keyboard?

infernox · 10 Jan 2013 at 09:51

Tried all of the above, the computer is totally unknown to the network, firmware password is not set, I think Im just going to back it up and re image it, its giving me a headache.

infernox · 10 Jan 2013 at 10:42

Now Network Boot doesnt seem to be working, arrgghh..

So much hassle.

slinxy · 10 Jan 2013 at 11:50

is it a network problem? with the machine not being seen on the network and network boot not working?

does it display the globe on network boot, saying the machine is trying to boot up from the network?

infernox · 10 Jan 2013 at 13:21

I was being really silly.

I disabled network boot because the kids were using it,

Just re enabled it and imaged the machine.

Works now haha.

infernox · 10 Jan 2013 at 13:22

slinxy said:
is it a network problem? with the machine not being seen on the network and network boot not working?

does it display the globe on network boot, saying the machine is trying to boot up from the network?

It wasn't being seen on the network because it was removed from both directories, managed accounts work differently.