[chefhomer]

Lucien,

Did you try disabling the net home folder paths under the local Spotlight? Did it resolve the ‘in use by another user’ error for you?

We see it a lot with Office Docs received as email attachments – have you tired opening any attachments by dbl-clicking in mail.app?
(we excluded ~/Library/Mail Downloads from local SpotLight to get around it for now) I’m curious if your experiences are similar.

Regards.

chefhomer

[chefhomer]

by adding the folders to System Preferences – SpotLight – Privacy Tab on the client machine

[chefhomer]

We do have the ‘.TemporaryItems’ folder at the root of the ‘Users’ share – it has not resolved the ‘File in use by ‘another user” error for us.
The only work around that has worked for us in our testing so far is disabling Spotlight indexing of the specific folders in question under the network home dir.

We have seen this error quite often when receiving Word documents as email attachments – especially if you click to open the word doc from the mail window just after receiving it. If you exclude ~/Library/Mail\ Downloads from Spotlight indexing, the attachments open first try with no ‘In use by another user’ error – otherwise if you get the error and wait a minute it will usually open on the 2nd try because spotlight is done with the file.

[chefhomer]

In troubleshooting we have done so far on the ‘File is in use by ‘another user’ ‘ error with Office 2008 and Net Homes – we believe we narrowed it down to Spotlight as the cause/application that had the document in use (trying to index it, when it became a new document on the filesystem)

I would be curious to learn if you disable Spotlight searching for the folder you are saving those documents to – does that issue also go away for you?

[chefhomer]

Thank you for posting the SearchNodeConfig.plist – after manually editing mine by hand with vi (and then sanity checking it post edit with plisteditor) I have had some success.

‘dscl /Search’ is now returning the IMHandle attribute from the Augment records I created along with the user info from the Primary LDAP Server – and I am able to login to the iChat jabber server via the accounts from the Primary LDAP!

2 questions –
– 1) when you look at your Augmented User in Workgroup Manager (viewing “Search Policy”) – do you see the Augmented IMHandle info show up in the Info Pane under ‘Chat’ field?
(I don’t)
– 2) What about under the Inspector Info for that user in Workgroup Manager? (I don’t see IMHandle info for the user show up in there either)

I only see the ‘merged record’ when I use ‘dscl /Search’

(Is Workgroup Manager not able to display the merged user records when viewing the ‘Search Policy’?)

[chefhomer]

Thank you for the suggestions – however the text I am pasting into Workgroup Manager checks out fine via the plist editor utiltiy. (and the plutil command returns ‘OK’ on the same file.)
I still never see the /Library/Preferences/DirectoryService/SearchNodeConfig.plist file get updated when I click save in Workgroup Manager.

I have tried it on 2 different Leopard Servers we have with the same results on both. (the plist does show up as saved under augment configuration in workgroup manager)

Is it possible to just Manually doctor the SearchNodeConfig.plist directly with the plist editor, and then kill off DirectoryService to get it to read the manually edited file?

If so – can someone copy and paste the text of their updated SearchNodeConfig.plist file?

Thanks.

[chefhomer]

I never was able to get this to work on my Leopard servers – can you point me to any more ‘Cylinder of Destiny’ resources that might help me get this working? Also I saw you mention OpenLDAP with Transparent Overlays in the WWDC OD presentation – is there more information available regarding setting up those types of configurations?

Thanks in advance.

[chefhomer]

Tried using a FQDN for both the PD and SD and it does not appear to have made any difference – I also tried a clean 10.5.1 server OS install to a second disk and started again from scratch but am seeing the same results. No change in the /Library/Preferences/DirectoryService/SearchNodeConfig.plist file after adding the augmentconfiguration via workgroup manager – Can you post what the plist should look like from your example config?

Do you think if I try editing the plist on the server by hand, and then restart the service it might work?

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