Network accounts missing home folder after waking up

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Network accounts missing home folder after waking up

My networks accounts recover without any problem after sleeping as long as the duration is short (a couple of minutes). If the machine wakes up after - let say 15 minutes - the networks accounts do not find the home directory and the computer reacts very slow. In this case logging out and loggin in resolves the problem. However, this is annoying.

I tried to solve the issue by reseting the CMS, deleting the DNS cache, etc. Any other idea where I could take a look? Thanks

The server is a mac mini with 10.8.2. No additional software installed. DNS is working.

Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Feb 14, 2013 6:34 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 16, 2013 12:50 PM in response to Evian

I've noticed the same problem. No solution though. sorry.

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Answer 2

Evian Author

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Feb 19, 2013 11:04 AM in response to ajm_from_WA

Looking at the following document http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3774 pointed me to the right direction.

In System Preferences, Energy Saver, deselect "Wake for network access". Voila! Now the problem is gone.

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Feb 20, 2013 3:01 PM in response to Evian

Do they appear as "idle" or "disabled/asleep" on the server?

I think you need to tweek your timeouts using the terminal, then reboot server.

Paste this into Terminal and see what you get?

serveradmin settings afp

These are the commands for setting timeouts, with the number of minites at the end of the line

afp:reconnectTTLInMin = 30

serveradmin settings afp:idleDisconnectTime = 10

serveradmin settings afp:clientSleepTime = 24

afp:recon1TokenTTLMins = 10080

You can google for more info.

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Feb 21, 2013 9:20 PM in response to Richard Cartledge

I have no idea how to tell.

sometimes on the server, if i goto file sharing, i can see that they have been idle for like a day.

is there any other place to see their status?

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