[VirtualWolf]

Oh, you’re having the same issue with admin users ignoring the MCX settings? At least it’s not just me then, heh.

I tested it at work, and it all worked perfectly, unfortunately… admin users were still getting the proper settings, unlike my setup.

[VirtualWolf]

Aye, but this is just my home machines.

[VirtualWolf]

Well!

It turns out the problem was that I was giving the portable users admin privileges (on the client machines, via System Preferences (“Allow user to administer this computer”)). It appears that by doing that, it ignores the custom excluded-folders preference and uses the standard one (everything but ~/Library).

The only way I found to recover from it is (again on the client machine) to log into an alternate admin account, rename the portable user’s home directory, delete the user from System Preferences, then rename the home folder back to how it should be and log in as the portable user. It’ll ask if you want to create a portable home folder, hit Create and it’ll run through the syncing process, and work fine from then on.

Just posting here in case anyone else runs into the same issue.

[VirtualWolf]

A quick update: I’ve looked in /Library/Managed Preferences/virtualwolf/, and com.apple.homeSync.plist contains the correct list of excluded files. Deleting the user and the LDAP bindings then re-adding and re-syncing it all didn’t work.

I somehow managed to get the “Merge with user’s settings” option to work on my G5, but it randomly stopped working. I went to the HomeSync menu extra and chose HomeSync Preferences, the window opened up and it was actually showing the dash for the Documents and Movies folder, indicating some sub-folders weren’t being synced (which is correct). I synced, it worked fine. After that, though, I logged out and back in, and it was back to not working properly again.

I have no idea what I actually did, however, so I don’t know how to get it going again.

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