User logins fail; admin login is okay

I'm running 10.3.9 all the latest updates on a 1 Ghz DP G4 with 1Gig RAM.
Admin login works fine; three user logins go nowhere... beachball just spins and I have to power off the comp to get out.
If I log in as Admin user and switch to another login, password is accepted but the desktop remains blank.
Running the comp in target mode, I can see the files of the various users.
Disk Utility looses connection (as mentioned in another post), not certain if this is also an iTunes update issue.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
1Ghz DP G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

After following the information to move iTunes to the desktop, I was able to run Disk Utilities and repaired persmssions.
However, there was no change in the ability for users to login. These users are managed, not standard.
I reinstalled OS 10.3 in archive mode, checked logins (which were fine) and installed the 10.3.9 update. Logins are broken again.
I can change the users to standard and they can login with no problem, but the moment I restrict anything (such as cannot change the dock) the logins fail.
Changing the users to standard allows logins; make them managed and they fail.
Certainly seems like a permissions issue, but repairing permissions does no good.
Any suggestions other than doing a clean install?
1Ghz DP G4 1 gig memory Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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</System>
<EventData>
<Data>ShareWebDb</Data>
<Binary>F14200000A000000170000005000450054003300310030005C004D004900430052004F0053004F00460054002300230053005300450045000000070000006D00610073007400650072000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
I get more 3760 errors than 2424's. However, the
2424's do seem to usually correspond to a 3760 18456 17137 occurance and the
3760 are always preceeded by 18456 17137. I was getting one or two sets a day, lately that has increased to 5 or 10.
I've done a lot of
web research on Sharepoint Errors 3760 and
2424 and I see a number of people are experiencing the the same issue. Most of what I've come across for solutions do not apply, since errors are intermittent, not chronic and my public remote URL has already been added
to BackConnectionHostNames as per:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2009/08/05/sharepoint-services-3-search-event-errors-after-an-sbs-2008-update-rollup.aspx
I installed the SQL Server Management Studio Express so I could try to track down the permissions on this database. I see the SQL server instance, MYSERVER\Microsoft##ssee, and it shows as running, but when I try to connect to it I get the following
error: "A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote
connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: -1)" I'm assuming that is because I don't have access permission for that internal database.
I don't see any errors in the event log related to failed logins or any errors at all from the SQL server, but there are the time matching informational entries right before the error events and lots of other 17137's and 2803's from MSSQL$Microsoft##ssee

Thank you Kevin, that does seem to match my symptoms and I have made the change suggested. Just incase that page becomes unreachable by others, here is the part of the page that applies to this:
Issue:
=========
Receive event error 3760 and 6398 on SBS 2008
Cause:
==========
Issue was caused by incorrect Auto Close option for ShareWebDb database
Solution:
==========
1. On the SBS 2008 server, click Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft SQL Server 2005, right click SQL Server Management Studio Express and choose run as administrator.
NOTE: You must run it as administrator to perform steps below.
2. In the Server Name box, type \\.\pipe\MSSQL$Microsoft##SSEE\sql\query, click connect.
3. Expand Database node and right click the ShareWebDb then choose properties.
4. Click Options in the left pane, in the right pane, please check whether the Auto Close option is set to True, if so, please change it to False.

Database Login failed for SIDADM

Hi,
I've installed a Solman system & the system starts just fine (even post OS reboots), however the problem is that sidadm is unable to connect to the database.
Administrator is able to connect just fine.
r3trans also ends with the same login failed error:
Login failed for user 'hostname\soladm'. [CLIENT: <local machine>]
Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 11.
I can't seem to find anything concrete on this.
Pls. help.
Thanks,
Saba.

Wowie:)
Disable UAC did the trick !!!
Thanks Markus n Sunil )

Password is correct but still compain Login failed in C sharp

Hello,
I am developing a small tool to collect the performance data and save the data in a central database, as you can see the end servers could be in different domains, the weird thing is the tool is running successfully on our servers in two different domains,
when run it on the third domain(our new environment), it always complains the login failed error, I found it might be related to the Integrated Security setting in the connection string, if I change it to false, the tool cannot work on all environments, but
no matter what value I use(SSPI,TRUE,FALSE), it just failed in the new environment, I have tried to use the same login in ODBC/SMSS on this new environment, all working fine, the instance name, database name are correct, everything is correct in program, it
doesn't work on this new machine.
My environment is windows 2012 R2 .Net 4.5
Any ideas? Thanks a million!
Please see below details:
using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"Data Source=servername;Initial Catalog=dbname;Integrated Security=false;UID=ReportUser;Password=12345678"))
Log File Viewer:
Login failed for user 'ReportUser'. Reason: Password did not match that for the login provided. [CLIENT: 10.61.132.101]
Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 8.
C Sharp exception:
[12-Dec-2014 15:16:23] Error Message:System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Login failed for user 'ReportUser'. at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection, Action`1 wrapCloseInAction)
at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj, Boolean callerHasConnectionLock, Boolean asyncClose) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.TryRun(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler,
SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj, Boolean& dataReady) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet
bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.CompleteLogin(Boolean enlistOK) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.AttemptOneLogin(ServerInfo serverInfo, String newPassword,
SecureString newSecurePassword, Boolean ignoreSniOpenTimeout, TimeoutTimer timeout, Boolean withFailover) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.LoginNoFailover(ServerInfo serverInfo, String newPassword, SecureString newSecurePassword,
Boolean redirectedUserInstance, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, SqlCredential credential, TimeoutTimer timeout) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.OpenLoginEnlist(TimeoutTimer timeout, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions,
SqlCredential credential, String newPassword, SecureString newSecurePassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds..ctor(DbConnectionPoolIdentity identity, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, SqlCredential
credential, Object providerInfo, String newPassword, SecureString newSecurePassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance, SqlConnectionString userConnectionOptions, SessionData reconnectSessionData) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions
options, DbConnectionPoolKey poolKey, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningConnection, DbConnectionOptions userOptions) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreatePooledConnection(DbConnectionPool
pool, DbConnection owningObject, DbConnectionOptions options, DbConnectionPoolKey poolKey, DbConnectionOptions userOptions) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.CreateObject(DbConnection owningObject, DbConnectionOptions userOptions, DbConnectionInternal
oldConnection) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.UserCreateRequest(DbConnection owningObject, DbConnectionOptions userOptions, DbConnectionInternal oldConnection) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.TryGetConnection(DbConnection
owningObject, UInt32 waitForMultipleObjectsTimeout, Boolean allowCreate, Boolean onlyOneCheckConnection, DbConnectionOptions userOptions, DbConnectionInternal& connection) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.TryGetConnection(DbConnection
owningObject, TaskCompletionSource`1 retry, DbConnectionOptions userOptions, DbConnectionInternal& connection) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.TryGetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection, TaskCompletionSource`1 retry, DbConnectionOptions
userOptions, DbConnectionInternal oldConnection, DbConnectionInternal& connection) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionInternal.TryOpenConnectionInternal(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory, TaskCompletionSource`1
retry, DbConnectionOptions userOptions) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.TryOpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory, TaskCompletionSource`1 retry, DbConnectionOptions userOptions)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.TryOpenInner(TaskCompletionSource`1 retry) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.TryOpen(TaskCompletionSource`1 retry) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.Open() at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy.CreateOrValidateConnection(String
method) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy.WriteRowSourceToServerAsync(Int32 columnCount, CancellationToken ctoken) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy.WriteToServer(DataTable table, DataRowState rowState) at ClusterServerMonitor1._0.Program.Main(String[]
args) ClientConnectionId:5a9db108-fdb4-4164-b539-ae87fd9786c1
using (SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection(@"Data Source=servername;Initial Catalog=dbname;Integrated Security=SSPI;UID=ReportUser;Password=12345678"))
[16-Dec-2014 16:29:29] Error Message:System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Windows authentication.
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection, Action`1 wrapCloseInAction)
at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj, Boolean callerHasConnectionLock, Boolean asyncClose)
at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.TryRun(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj, Boolean& dataReady)
at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.CompleteLogin(Boolean enlistOK)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.AttemptOneLogin(ServerInfo serverInfo, String newPassword, SecureString newSecurePassword, Boolean ignoreSniOpenTimeout, TimeoutTimer timeout, Boolean withFailover)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.LoginNoFailover(ServerInfo serverInfo, String newPassword, SecureString newSecurePassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, SqlCredential credential, TimeoutTimer
timeout)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.OpenLoginEnlist(TimeoutTimer timeout, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, SqlCredential credential, String newPassword, SecureString newSecurePassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds..ctor(DbConnectionPoolIdentity identity, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, SqlCredential credential, Object providerInfo, String newPassword, SecureString newSecurePassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance,
SqlConnectionString userConnectionOptions, SessionData reconnectSessionData)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions options, DbConnectionPoolKey poolKey, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningConnection, DbConnectionOptions userOptions)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreatePooledConnection(DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningObject, DbConnectionOptions options, DbConnectionPoolKey poolKey, DbConnectionOptions userOptions)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.CreateObject(DbConnection owningObject, DbConnectionOptions userOptions, DbConnectionInternal oldConnection)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.UserCreateRequest(DbConnection owningObject, DbConnectionOptions userOptions, DbConnectionInternal oldConnection)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.TryGetConnection(DbConnection owningObject, UInt32 waitForMultipleObjectsTimeout, Boolean allowCreate, Boolean onlyOneCheckConnection, DbConnectionOptions userOptions, DbConnectionInternal& connection)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.TryGetConnection(DbConnection owningObject, TaskCompletionSource`1 retry, DbConnectionOptions userOptions, DbConnectionInternal& connection)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.TryGetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection, TaskCompletionSource`1 retry, DbConnectionOptions userOptions, DbConnectionInternal oldConnection, DbConnectionInternal& connection)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionInternal.TryOpenConnectionInternal(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory, TaskCompletionSource`1 retry, DbConnectionOptions userOptions)
at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.TryOpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory, TaskCompletionSource`1 retry, DbConnectionOptions userOptions)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.TryOpenInner(TaskCompletionSource`1 retry)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.TryOpen(TaskCompletionSource`1 retry)
at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.Open()
at ClusterServerMonitor1._0.Program.Main(String[] args)
ClientConnectionId:a7156d12-ec69-482e-83f6-cfdb30e5bc8d

There are two different errors from error log.
Login failed for user 'ReportUser'. Reason: Password did not match that for the login provided. [CLIENT: 10.61.132.101]
Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 8.
This error indicates that there is invalid password issue.
[16-Dec-2014 16:29:29] Error Message:System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Windows authentication.
see below link:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14170927/login-failed-the-login-is-from-an-untrusted-domain-and-cannot-be-used-with-wind
Please Mark This As Answer if it solved your issue
Please Mark This As Helpful if it helps to solve your issue
Thanks,
Shashikant

Login to admin account fails suddenly

Hi!
I have quite a strange problem here; I could not find infos about this (I am quite a new Mac user - and didn't have such big problems so far...):
when I started my Mac today, all my user settings etc. were gone - it seemed like my Mac was brand new (all settings as factory setting - no program remembered me - e.g. Mail or Adium or iCal). I have put my user directory on an external hard drive, and suspected that this might have been the problem (the Finder didn't show my documts or photo folders, and other things). Although the external hard drive was working fine and shown in Finder, I checked the respective settings in the control panel (user settings); it was still correctly set. Even if, I reset the path again using the "Browse" dialogue to the same folder; I was a bit astonished that the name of the hard drive shown was a bit different (OS X added a "1" behind the real names shown in Finder - so it was "sarah 1" instead of "sarah"; however, I trusted OS X in this, and thought that this was the reason why I couldn't reach my user account data via the Finder.
So I trusted the settings and left them, and then restarted: At this time, OS X gave the message that (I translate from German): "You cannot login with this user name. The login process with this user name failed due to an error."; that's where I'm stuck. The astonishing point is that the password I give is correct - and in fact, OS X also still remembers my additional question; so, a password problem seems to be ruled out. Thus, I believe that the path to my user data is still incorrect, and that some information is kept there for the start-up. Even if the Mac earlier this evening started correctly, despite the user path seemed to be corrupted (the data were not shown, as said above) - now the unavailability of the user path seems to have "worsened", and keeps OS X from logging into my account.
The account is my only administrator account; I am a bit worried that my other user accounts are not shown in the login screen - but I never used it before.
Anyway - I believe, what COULD help me would be to find a way to reset the user account path (the old path should still be on the external Macintosh HD, although most utility data are missing) - thus, I believe, what could help me would be if I could reset the user account settings so that the Mac doesn't search for the data on the external hard drive (which path seems to be wrong); however, I don't seem to be able to change the settings if I can't reach beyond the login screen.
Thus, my question: can anybody tell me how I can reach my account settings now? Is there any utility on the reset disc of my Mac that could help me to start into a safe mode that would at least allow me (after supplying the admin password) to change the admin user settings? Or does anybody have any other suggestions? I am lost here a bit, although I principally believe I can do at least a bit about Computers...
Thanks for any help! Sorry for this long text! Greetings to all readers who have survived till this point!
Björn

Hi, V.K.!
Thanks a lot for Your detailled answer! Admittedly, I had problems to follow Your suggestions exactly, because I couldn't get my Mac (mini) to start from the install DVD (I only tried disc I - it came with the mini in february, but I think it is the original install DVD - thus I believe, it should also contain the utilities You were talking about). In fact, the Mac didn't want to boot from the DVD - I guess the problem was my USB Bluetooth keyboard (Logitech), which I never tried to connect to the Mac directly.
Anyway - when I was trying different key combinations (in addition to just typing "C" to boot from the DVD) at startup to see whether the install DVD was the problem or the keyboard, I used the command-S key combination to start in single user mode... in the command line, I tried if I could find a way to make the Mac start from the DVD (which was still in the drive) - but couldn't. When I typed "exit", the Mac booted normally, and I was back in the Finder, where I could reset the problem with the user data path. Thus, this problem was solved - though in an erroneous (and thus not really satisfying) way...
Anyway, I still have the problem with my user account - although the path is now correctly set again and the Mac boots as before, all my user data and settings (including the iCal data etc.) are still not connected, although they are still on the external hard drive... The Mac does not show me the "documents" or "downloads" or "desktop" options under "places" in Finder, and also my iTunes and iPhoto libraries are not available there - although the data are still present in the user folder on the external hard drive (the one that is now set again to be my user home folder in the "user" control panel). I don't know how this happened - and why my Mac doesn't seem to recognize the data and show them. The last thing I did was to do the Leopard system update on wednesday morning (which was a Java update) - and in the evening all my settings appeared to have been erased (as described before).
Does anybody have any explanations for this - or, even better: any solutions? I feel a bit lost - as if my Mac was making jokes with me
Thanks for any hints!
With kind regards,
Björn
Message was edited by: bBcuda

Login failed for user '(null)'. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection

"[DBNETLIB] Login failed for user '(null)'. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection"
After patches applied on patch Tuesday the database reports the above error.
All accounts are domain accounts and SQLServer uses Windows auth.
DCDIAG show no errors
All servers and DC have been restarted,
Message in db log confirms the connection is being denied due to trust.
Event log shows same rejection
Protocols enabled: named pipes, tcpip, memory
TESTS:
PortQry: "
TCP port 1433 (ms-sql-s service): LISTENING"
Connect with domain admin accounts works from multiple clients systems to DB.
Cannot connect with newly created domain admin account
Can connect if new admin account connect to server in terminal server session and uses UDL wizard or any other tool including isql.
New standard user also fails to connect.
NOTES:
I removed the SSL patch and the IE security update to see if that was an issue.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Has someone left the company or has an account of some nature been dropped/replaced?
Please click "Mark As Answer" if my post helped. Tony C.
Hi Tony,
Srry but No. We just installed the monthly updates.
I went back and found I had missed removing a patch. I missed the rollup for Windows Server 2003:
Event Type: Information
Event Source: NtServicePack
Event Category: None
Event ID: 4382
Date:  3/12/2015
Time:  12:26:04 PM
User:  NETTEST\admin
Computer: DATA1
Description:
Windows Server 2003 KB954920 was removed from your computer, and the previous Windows Server 2003 configuration was restored.
After I removed that is still didn't work but after about five minutes it started working.
I guess I ned to report that to MS after I research what might be changed to make the patch work.
Every time I get stuck and ask for help it seems to be just before I stumble on the solution.
Thanks for replying.
Well - maybe this will help someone else.
Thanks again for replying Tony
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Cannot connect to SERVER. Login failed for user 'DOMAIN\user'. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error 18456) - SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server 2008 R2

I've seen multiple blogs and forums with similar problems and SQL 2012 or 2008. But no solutions that work for me.
I have installed SQL Server in mixed mode (SQL and Windows authentication). I can create new Login accounts in either mode. However, I cannot get an AD security group Login account to work. I am trying to add group 'DOMAIN\Domain Admins' or 'SERVER\Administrators'
as a Login so that any of the domain's administrator accounts can open SQL Server Management Studio and act as an 'sa' account on this server.
I have deleted the SQL account 'DOMAIN\Domain Admins'.
I have restarted SQL.
I have restarted the Win2K8r2 server.
I have launched SSMS as Administrator from the desktop of SERVER.
I have launched SSMS as another user (and used 'DOMAIN\user' to lauch it) from the desktop of SERVER.
I can create a login account named 'DOMAIN\user' (who happens to be a member of the 'DOMAIN\Domain Admins' group) and give this account 'sa' security, and when I do that, this account works as expected...
How do I add a security group as a Login account and give all members of that group the ability to be an 'sa' account?

Hi geoperkins,
Are you getting the following error message?
Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 11
Login failed for user <Domain\user>. Reason: Token-based server access validation failed with an infrastructure error.
If that is the case, the issue could be due to that the Windows login has no profile or that permissions could not be checked due to UAC. Please disable UAC firstly and check if it is successful to log in SQL Server.
Another reason could be that the domain controller could not be reached. You may need to resort to re-creating the login. Create a new group in AD, add users to the new group, then add the group to the local admin group and create login for the group in SQL
Server.
There is a connect item describing similar issue for your reference.
https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/680705/cant-login-to-sql-using-windows-authentication-when-user-is-in-a-domain-security-group
For more details about above error, please review the following blog.
http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/simons/archive/2011/02/01/solution-login-failed-for-user-x-reason-token-based-server-access-validation-failed-and-error-18456.aspx
Thanks,
Lydia Zhang
Lydia Zhang
TechNet Community Support

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