After login to network account all files have been modified (10.8.1 Server)

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After login to network account all files have been modified (10.8.1 Server)

Hello,

after logging in to my network account or after mounting a server volume, all files of my home directory have been modified.

The login procedure takes about 1 minute; during this time I can see on the server that there are running these 3 processes with higher cpu usage: mds, chown and fseventsd.

I created a new user and reinstalled the server, but it's the same behavior.

The user directory is on an external hard drive.

I use 10.8.1 Server and Client.

I could not find anything relevant about this problem in the internet so it seems to be quite a rare problem. But perhaps one of you has an idea.

Thanks in advance!

Christoph

OS X Server

Posted on Sep 5, 2012 6:29 AM

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Mark23

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Sep 5, 2012 6:50 AM in response to christoph.l

I think your problem has a rather simple solution, since all files in a directory aren't modified unless you tell the OS or a program you've installed to.

To keep the external hard drive mounted even when nobody is logged into your server, enter the following into terminal:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/autodiskmount \

AutomountDisksWithoutUserLogin -bool YES

I think your server is looking for the external Hard Drive, but can' tfind it and thus defaults back to the internal HD.

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christoph.l Author

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Sep 6, 2012 2:05 AM in response to christoph.l

Ok, problem is solved:

The directory on the external hard disk which contains all the user directories had the wrong privileges. After fixing this, all works fine.

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Mark23

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Sep 6, 2012 8:47 AM in response to christoph.l

Mark your answer as solving your question please so it helps other users who are having the same problem.

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