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  • December 14, 2007 at 1:48 pm #370803
    Bpepermans
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    Hi All,

    I’m done setting up my OD Master and the Groups and Users stuff (on Tiger Server) but I’m now stuck with an issue : when applying “Mobility Sync” for a group of laptops the machines do prompt users to create a mobile home folder. But wether the Login & Logout Rules remain empty or disabled, Dekstop, Downloads and Documents are sync’ed at login… I even tried to add those folders ‘~/Documents” to the skipped login/logout items and they still get sync’ed at login and logout…

    I choosed another Computer list, applied Mobility features and tried the same settings and every user, on any laptop or desktop gets Desktop, Documents and Downloads synchronized at login and logout.

    Which settings do I have to override in order to only sync Desktop at login, and some other stuff during Background Sync ??? Are there “default folders” to be sync’ed at login ?

    Server : OS X 10.4.11
    Client : OS X 10.4.11 or 10.5.1

    Thanks !

    December 19, 2007 at 7:13 am #370843
    Bpepermans
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    Even with “Always” checked and “Merge with user…” disabled, the sync goes its on way, ignoring the folders I’d like not to be synced…

    How could I reset sync prefs on the serer (I have deleted client user accounts to ensure no prefs would be left ???

    December 21, 2007 at 7:29 am #370874
    daniel.svensson
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    I would start by checking if the settings actually composites correctly on the client.

    Start by (on a client logged in as an admin) dirty the MCX-cache to force an update of the cache:
    sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/mcxd.app/Contents/Resources/MCXCacher -d

    Also wipe the existing settings, the will be redownloaded at the next login:
    sudo rm -R /Library/Managed\ Preferences/

    Now logout and log back in as a user and open the com.apple.homeSync.plist in /Library/Managed Preferences/short_name/ and verify that it corresponds to your settings in WGM.

    The SyncedPrefFolders array is your login/logout settings and the SyncedFolders is the background/manual settings.

    December 30, 2007 at 6:07 pm #370911
    Bpepermans
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    My client machines are working with Leopard, and I can’t execute this command : “sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/mcxd.app/Contents/Resources/MCXCacher -d”

    I wiped the existing preferences and after logout/login, I do not have any “homeSync.plist” on the computer…

    Any idea ?

    January 2, 2008 at 10:07 pm #370924
    magnus.palmer
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    To get Leopard client to sync properly with Tiger server I have to add following six keys to com.apple.homeSync.plist:
    [code]syncBackgroundSetAtLogin
    dontSync
    syncBackgroundSetAtLogout
    dontSync
    syncPreferencesAtLogin
    sync
    syncPreferencesAtLogout
    sync
    syncPreferencesAtSyncNow
    dontSync
    syncPreferencesInBackground
    dontSync[/code]

    January 3, 2008 at 6:37 am #370929
    magnus.palmer
    Participant

    I found the new keys to 10.5 in this thread at Apple Discussions, [url]http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5785706[/url] and it worked to me.

    November 5, 2008 at 4:52 am #374659
    ahancock
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    FWIW, on a 10.5.3 install, combo updated to 10.5.5, I am still running into this kind of issue on 25% of the users in my edirectory magic triangle deployment.

    November 10, 2008 at 12:37 pm #374711
    ahancock
    Participant

    Here’s a great question to ask of people having these issues:
    are you managing any preferences by computer policy? doing to will force policies to be cached for offline use.

    This is a solution to this thread.

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