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Well, the key problem for any anti-virus on a Mac (or anywhere else) is to show it is both Safe and Effective (same standard FDA uses for drugs, vaccines, etc 🙂 The absence of established real threats makes it hard to establish “effective”, and previous experience with badly-behaving AntiVirus software makes me wonder about “safe”.

Of course, you can’t talk reasonable risk assessment (or much else) with corporate IT Nazis…

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Also:
1. I’ve seen problems associated with ACLs. If you don’t need ACLs on home directories/user directories, don’t use them. (This gave me Error -41 on Time Machine sync, too.)
2. Another thing to do is delete the .FileSync directories on both mobile and server. The next sync will take a long time, but I’ve seen good speed-up after that reset.

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I’m seeing similar problems syncing 1Password. I turned off server side tracking, but the performance has gone to hell on the laptop. That’s due to massive memory use by the sync process. My machine has 3gb RAM (older MBP maxed out) and when the sync process runs VM goes up to 2gb or even higher on occasion. That causes the MBP to pretty much roll over and die (even with a 7200 RPM drive in it…)

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I think so (but I’m away and can’t double-check to be sure.)

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Are you trying to have more than one machine be ‘mobile’? In my situation, my laptop has the one-and-only mobile account for user “emery”, all other machines are set up as traditional LDAP/networked home directory accounts.

As a side comment, sometimes synching doesn’t work right between the laptop and the server, which I suspect is some strange interaction with my laptop having a FileVault home directory.

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I unshared and reshared the home directory/group directory and then rebooted. That seems to have fixed the problem.

I still don’t know what happened.

dave

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For what it’s worth, I host my home directories on an external (FW800) RAID Mirrored enclosure. Under Leopard/Snow Leopard server, this has worked fine. (It was really hard to configure under Tiger server, but eventually I got it to work.)

You’ll need to be very careful about how you set up the accounts in the Workgroup Manager to configure the home directories properly. As I recall, first you have to go to Server Manager and establish the mount points as LDAP home directory automounts. Then you can launch Workgroup Manager and the home directory automount should be selectable.

But note my posting here where I’m now having problem with those home directories after upgrading the disk drives in the RAID enclosure.

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On a related topic, does the Apple USB Fax Modem (“stick of gum”) work in Snow Leopard/Snow Leopard Server? I understand it’s been discontinued, which rather pisses me off since I bought one only a couple of months ago.

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Well, this may not help but: I have Leopard Server on a G5 desktop, and that machine is very flakey. It seems to be particularly sensitive to RAM, at times it’s reported errors associated with bad RAM. I also have TimeMachine running on an external drive (not a 10.4.x problem, I know) and large TimeMachine backup sets seem to be susceptible to disk corruption.

If nothing else, you might want to look for memory diagnostics; even better if you can run something like AppleJack in standalone mode to remove bad RAM as a culprit.

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I was able to get Tiger Server up and running without DNS, but not Leopard Server. Discussions on some other lists yielded the consensus that you -do need- to have DNS working correctly (or you have to be very wise in the way of Server configuration…) It’s the forward -and- reverse DNS that’s critical.

dave

p.s. I think I’ll replace the G5 desktop that’s currently running Leopard server with a new Mini. FW800 is fast enough to use as a file server; we run the main accounts here as ‘mobile accounts’ so they’re running from the MB Pro/iMac local drive and backing up to the Server. The G5 has been giving me major problems, and I have a friend who is having similar problems with Server on his G5.

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Under OS X.5.5 and OS X Server 5.5 this does seem to be working OK for me. It stopped working under X.5.3(?) and came back after a X.5 Server update.

However, it can be slow and fussy. (‘fussy’ in the sense that some things e.g. lockfiles seem to always generate synch errors, and under some circumstances, I’ve had files/folders that I deleted on the mobile account come back because they weren’t deleted on the server.)

All-in-all, I don’t find Mobile account synching to be fully trustworthy. So now I keep a separate backup by having a Synk Pro scheduled application that opens an encrypted disk image of my home directory on an external drive, synch/backups to that disk image (at 4:00 AM every day), then closes the image & dismounts it. This too has been giving me occasional problems, my hope is that a (another!) failed hard drive on my laptop will be able to recover from at least one of these two independent backup methods.

Oh, and my Server now backs itself up to a 1TB external drive. This works for me since I’m only supporting a few accounts and the (old G5 I use as a) server has a total of 1tb (4x500gb drives, RAID-Mirrored into 2x500gb partitions).

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: MacTroll[/u][p]Hmmm, you should be able to have a PHD that’s also using TimeMachine to an AFP share. Although I can’t say that I’ve tried it.[/p][/QUOTE]

When I get my OS X Server machine (older PowerPC G5 2ghzDP) back up (big problems, I think bad RAM caused substantial disk corruption and I haven’t been home long enough to get everything restored. On top of that, I think its monitor went bad, too….), I want to try this. But I’m generally disappointed with Mobile account synching, it takes -way- too long. If I can’t get mobile accounts to work better than they did before the X Server machine crashed, I’ll jimmy something up myself using a tool like Synk. (My laptop’s home directory is FileVault protected, it’s a corporate/program requirement.)

Right now what I’m doing for backup, incidentally, is using a pocket disk drive. There’s a encrypted disk image on that drive, and every night at 4:00 Synk Pro launches, mounts the encrypted backup disk image, and copies/clones/updates it with what’s in my home directory. Of course this does not give me Time Machine’s “backups over time” feature, but it’s a lot better than nothing!

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What’s the “golden triangle”?

dave

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[QUOTE]Good call to try it, but no dice.[/QUOTE]

Well, you’ve run off the edge of my knowledge here. Good Luck! Maybe someone with a deeper knowledge can chime in.

dave

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[QUOTE]Yup,
127.0.0.1.[/QUOTE]

Well…. Try replacing 127.0.0.1 (which resolves to localhost) with the actual IP address of the machine, and see if that works. I’m wondering if the fact this is a ‘special’ (non-routable?) address is causing the problem.

But I could be totally off here.

dave

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