Photoshop and Firfox 10.4.10 problems when we log into OD AFP server Local login works

[vudutu]

We are working on a new client image (perfect client image to deploy with Netboot) and our Intel machines, new and old, are throwing errors in CS2 Photoshop and refusing to launch Firefox when we log in to home folders from the OSXserver, local accounts run OK. The Intel Mac Pros we got last year ran Photoshop fine using last years image. Power Macs are running OK logged in on the server and local. The biggest variable is we are now running 10.4.10, the last image was 10.4.9. Anyone seen this, any thoughts, I have tried everything I can think of.
Thanks!

[vudutu]

Hi Josh thanks for the post,

I intended to post an update yesterday but being first day of school I was a bit distracted. We figured it out Saturday, don’t understand why it worked exactly as I am not as knowledgeable as most folks on afp548 but here goes…

We created two new test users, ran tests, here are results.

testa logs into intel Mac, everything works, logs out switches to PPC, everything works, logs out, logs into intel, problems described earlier occur.

testb logs into PPC, everything works, logs out switches to intel, problems described earlier occur, logs out, logs into intel, problems described earlier occur, logs out, logs PPC everything works.

We finally figured out we had neglected to run a script on the intel that we ran on the PPC redirecting the user caches to the local Mac rather than their home folder Duhhh. Once we had our consultant run that script on the Intel Mac image things settled down, we are imaging some more Macs and testing now.

Now I am still trying to wrap my mind around why this occurred, the only thing I can figure is there must be some info written to the cache the first time you log in that it did not find.

Adobe products and Microsoft software seems to give us the most headaches, Firefox usually runs pretty well.
Now if I could just figure out why I can’t suppress student accounts launching the print center I’ll be gold.

Thanks again

[vudutu]

Actually Firefox is running pretty good for us, I suspect that the reason is we redirect caches to the local Mac, this seems to help network speed a great deal also.

[Beagle1]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: vudutu[/u][p]Actually Firefox is running pretty good for us, I suspect that the reason is we redirect caches to the local Mac, this seems to help network speed a great deal also.
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Hi – Would you mind sharing your script that re-directs the user’s Caches to the local Mac? Our school uses network homes heavily and up until this year I haven’t had too many issues…but lately I’m seeing lots of unexplained crashing and poor performance of MS Office and Appleworks. So I would like to try re-directing a lot of the cached stuff to the local Mac. Thanks for any help or advice you have on this!

[vudutu]

Beagle1,
There are a number of scrips and tools out there to do this but I am not confident enough to poke around in the guts so I use a consultant to do it. I emailed you my phone number if you want to discuss.

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