Can't setup my MacMini server!

Hi !
I can't setup my MacMini server.
I can access it to SSH with "root" user but when I use the Server Admin tool, I can't authenticate "Password wrong"
Someone can help me ?

So you too have a Mac Mini refurb? (If you have a serial number, then your configuration is probably not a refurb, which means your question probably isn't the same.)
Are you working your install remote, or do you have a display and keyboard connected directly to the box?
If you're not working locally with a directly-attached keyboard and mouse and video, then I'd suggest starting there. Get the network stuff out of the path.
I'd also look at the particular keyboard in use, as I've chased a few similar problems over the years that involved using non-vendor keyboards. You might not be getting the same character listed on the keycap; Mac OS X does try to adapt to PC keyboards and such, but doesn't always succeed. And some PC keyboards are just weird.
If you are working locally and the box isn't working and the passwords are stuffed and you have an Apple keyboard or recognized PC keyboard, then the path forward for the Mac Mini Server (as differentiated from the Mac Mini not-server refurb that's discussed in the base thread, and versions of that Mac Mini not-server can boot Leopard) would be to wipe the disk using Disk Utility (via the menu bar visible on the second? page when you boot the installation DVD) and then perform a full install.

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