Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Reset MacMini Admin Pwd


To reset your OS X password without an OS X CD you need to enter terminal and create a new admin account:
  1. Reboot
  2. Hold apple + s down after you hear the chime.
  3. When you get text prompt enter in these terminal commands to create a brand new admin account (hitting return after each line):
    • mount -uw /
    • rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
    • shutdown -h now
  4. After rebooting you should have a brand new admin account. When you login as the new admin you can simply delete the old one and you’re good to go again!

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Event ID: 12294

Event ID:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: SAM
Event Category: None
Event ID: 12294
Date: 3/3/2003
Time: 9:42:55 AM
User: (USERNAME)
Computer: (COMPUTERNAME)
Description:
The SAM database was unable to lockout the account of ? due to a resource error, such as a hard disk write failure (the specific error code is in the error data) .  Accounts are locked after a certain number of bad passwords are provided so please  consider resetting the password of the account mentioned above.

Found one PC trying to reconnect to this Server (Below) and I get the event ID (above)

The computer BLOSSOM tried to connect to the server \\AISCTSRV02 using the trust relationship established by the AISCT domain. However, the computer lost the correct security identifier (SID) when the domain was reconfigured. Reestablish the trust relationship.