MacOS – Problems logging into MacOS using Active Directory user not working, but SSH works fine

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I am having trouble with logging into our MacOS device in the office but I can SSH into the device and I can view the login screen via VNC.

What steps can I use to troubleshoot why I cannot log into the Mac as any user?

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I found a solution by deleting the user and creating a new user with the same name through the command line. I've no idea why the problem happened, but all other solutions didn't work.

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IPad – SSH connection to Mac works from the outside but not locally

The router does the NAT on the external interface. However when you ssh to your WAN address the router will recognize packets coming in on on the internal interface as being sent to its own address and will just send them to its local port 22. What you want does exist but isn't often supported, it's called "NAT loopback".

See NAT Loopback Routers

MacOS – SSH works locally but not remotely

If all your machines are running Lion or Mountain Lion, and you're using the same iCloud account on them, then you can use iCloud to ssh as described in this blog post from One Thing Well

First, find your Back To My Mac account number by running.

dns-sd -E

Then SSH to another machine like so

ssh -2 -6 username@computer-name.[account number].members.btmm.icloud.com

You can also add this to your ~/.ssh/config to make it easier

Host mac-remote
User username
HostName computername.[account number].members.btmm.icloud.com
AddressFamily inet6
Protocol 2

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