Setting up Mobile Home syncing issues

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Setting up Mobile Home syncing issues

I'm setting up laptops with Profile Manager and using mobile homes. When I go to sync the home, it says it successful but the date is 12/31/01 7:03pm. The date and time are correct on the laptop and server.

Server 10.7.4, clients are 10.7.4

Here are my steps:

Image laptop
Create user in Server.app
Add user to a workgroup
In Profile Manager, add computer to computer group
In Profile Manager, add device to user
As admin on laptop, bind computer to server address in Users & Groups pref pane. (Profile Manager user does not exist in here yet)
Logout
Login as Profile Manager user through network (not a local user at this point), make admin to machine (now showing up in Users & Groups). Restart.
Login as user and create Moble Home.

This is where I get varying results. Sometimes it's successful (though still with the wrong date of backup). Sometimes it's successful and logs me out as the user, then the user can't login info about 20 seconds, even though it is a local account.

Is there a problem that the network Profile Manager user is not created by me on the local machine by hand, or is it okay to count on a network login to create it? Could that even be remotely related to the date issue with Mobile Home syncing?

Posted on Sep 14, 2012 8:20 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 14, 2012 10:26 AM in response to ThrustinJ

Don't use Profile Manager to set up Mobile Accounts.

Yes, I know there is a Mobility tab in Profile Manager, and it stands to reason if it's there you should be able to use it. But the reality is unfortunately different, it just doesn't work right. I've even had an Apple Enterprise rep tell me not to use Profile Manager for setting up Mobile accounts.

Just use Workgroup Manager to do it. It works perfectly, exactly like it should.

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Sep 14, 2012 11:30 AM in response to Jonathan Melville

Are there any conflicts I should be aware of using Profile Manager and Workgroup manager together?

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ThrustinJ Author

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Sep 17, 2012 6:14 AM in response to ThrustinJ

I'm not sure why files aren't syncing though. The process looks like it works, but the last sync date still says 12/31/01 7:03PM.

I have my suspicions.

9/17/12 9:07:35.439 AM com.apple.SystemUIServer.agent: Mon Sep 17 09:07:35 2012 HomeSync[315] (FileSync.framework) _SFSendMessage: gServerMessagePortName = 'com.apple.FileSyncAgent.iDisk'

9/17/12 9:07:35.441 AM com.apple.SystemUIServer.agent: Mon Sep 17 09:07:35 2012 HomeSync[315] (FileSync.framework) -[SFSyncSet registerForCallbacks]: 0x10c54e810

9/17/12 9:07:35.564 AM mount_url: mount_url: Mount of afp://;AUTH=NO%20USER%20AUTHENT@[SERVERNAME]/staff_data on /Network/Servers/co-osxs1.rockingham.k12.va.us/Volumes/User_Data/Homes/staff_da ta gives status -5997

9/17/12 9:07:35.686 AM mount_url: mount_url: Mount of afp://;AUTH=NO%20USER%20AUTHENT@[SERVERNAME]/staff_data on /Network/Servers/co-osxs1.rockingham.k12.va.us/Volumes/User_Data/Homes/staff_da ta gives status -5997

9/17/12 9:07:35.812 AM mount_url: mount_url: Mount of afp://;AUTH=NO%20USER%20AUTHENT@[SERVERNAME]/staff_data on /Network/Servers/[SERVERNAME]/Volumes/User_Data/Homes/staff_data gives status -5997

9/17/12 9:07:36.004 AM com.apple.launchd.peruser.50990025: (com.apple.TMLaunchAgent) Throttling respawn: Will start in 2 seconds

9/17/12 9:07:36.000 AM kernel: AFP_VFS afpfs_mount: /Volumes/staff_data, pid 250

9/17/12 9:07:36.600 AM com.apple.SystemUIServer.agent: Mon Sep 17 09:07:36 2012 HomeSync[315] (FileSync.framework) -[SFSyncSet registerForCallbacks]: 0x7fe82212fdc0

9/17/12 9:07:38.065 AM Finder: ISGetIconFamilyFromStorage: seed mismatch for 28540011, actual seed is 1befd79f

9/17/12 9:07:38.065 AM Finder: ISGetIconFamilyFromStorage: seed mismatch for 27f80012, actual seed is 41a7c4c9

9/17/12 9:07:38.000 AM kernel: AFP_VFS afpfs_unmount: /Volumes/staff_data, flags 524288, pid 322

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Sep 17, 2012 7:41 AM in response to ThrustinJ

I figured out it was a permissions issue after editing the Server.app created user in WGM to change the UID to our format. CHOWN the home folder. Syncing works fine now.

Won't do anything in Profile Manager for awhile now.

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