Unable to create a specific Active Directory mobile Account

Dear Community,
I do have a problem with one workstation when I want to login with a specific Active Directory mobile user account. The login window will shake and refuse login due to invalid credentials... but this is not true, on other workstations the same account works without any problem. And also the Active Directory settings are verified and correct and other mobile account also work.
So I tried to create the mobile account manually via Terminal :
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/ManagedClient.app/Contents/Resources/createmobilea ccount -n username
sudo createhomedir -c -u username
But this command results in an error that the account already exists, trying to delete, again an error null, etc... so no way.
So I tried to start up in Single-User-Mode and get into dscl to finally delete this mysterious account daemon... but again I'm resulting in an error:
dscl . -delete /Users/{username}
<dscl_cmd> DS Error: -14009 (eDSUnknownNodeName)
Anyone any idea how to get this base cleaned so I can make this specific operator work on this specific Mac ? Help greatly appreciated. Thanks
Cheers

Could it be DNS cache?
http://old.nabble.com/%3Cdscl_cmd%3E-DS-Error%3A--14009-%28eDSUnknownNodeName%29 -td30706666.html
The LSAP DB?
http://old.nabble.com/Bad-Users!-td19172901.html
Or even this?
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1448801?start=0&tstart=0

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