james dawson (twibble)

Q: Mobile accounts lengthy sync

I run lion server hosted on a mac mini. There are two macs in the house and 4 users access either at different times.

 

I set up the user accounts as mobile thinking that this was required as any user may access either mac.

 

Currently I am getting grief from the users as the sync process (checking, downloading, finishing) takes sometimes up to 10 minutes. Note that the checking part of the process seems to take the largest portion of the sync time.

 

I am now asking myself the question of whether they needed to be mobile in the first place.

 

If not how can I revert the accounts back to a non-mobile user account. (note: it appears by simply de-selecting all the mobility options in the server workgroup tools does not stop the syncing.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

James

 

Melbourne AUS

Posted on Aug 16, 2012 4:39 PM

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  • by serogers1970,

    serogers1970 serogers1970 Aug 27, 2013 1:42 PM in response to james dawson (twibble)
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    Aug 27, 2013 1:42 PM in response to james dawson (twibble)

    A year old, but it sounds like your users have A LOT of information. Probably pictures/movies/music.

    The more of that they have (especially iPhoto pictures) the longer it is going to take to check.

    You can go in to mobile sync preferences (inside accounts system preference) and deselect those folders from syncing (but they will only have access to those files on one computer), or save them off to an external device and delete them from the computers/server.