Where are mobile home sync logs found?

Did some searching, came up empty

This is probably too late for the OP, but hopefully someone else will find it helpful.
The problem is ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist.
If you're using mobile home folders, don't sync it. If you're not, script it to kill it off at login.
This what worked for me.

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Q abt. "Server Side File Tracking for Mobile Home Sync"

I am following the steps "To optimize the file server for mobile accounts" which are listed on page 157 in Mac OS X Server v10.6 - User Management :
In Server Admin, click the disclosure triangle for the server hosting network home folders for mobile accounts.
If Firewall isn’t listed, select the server, click Settings, click Services, select Firewall, and then click Save.
Select Firewall, click Settings, and then click Services.
Choose the address range for your users’ computers from the “Edit Services for” pop-up menu.
Select “Allow only traffic from ‘ipaddress’ to any of these ports,” select the Allow checkbox for Mobile Account Sync (port 2336), and then click Save.
Select the server, click Settings, and then click General.
Select “Server Side File Tracking for Mobile Home Sync” and then click Save.
My questions is:
In step 2, I added "Firewall" to the services. I continued with the following steps, but nowhere does it say to press the button "Start Firewall", so as of right now Firewall is listed, but not activated - it's gray and not green. Should I turn on the Firewall Service? In my setup, a cable modem/router is acting Firewall between WAN and LAN (small private home network).

I can't get Server Side File Tracking to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Here's what I've done:
1. Followed the instructions in "Mac OS X Server v10.6 - User Management" as per the first post in this thread.
2. Tried turning on the Firewall Service - resulting in clients unable to log in to their network accounts.
3. In Server Admin, under Firewall>Settings>Services, with 192.168-net selected in the pop-up menu entitled "Editing services for", I then chose "Allow all traffic" (instead of "Allow only traffic to these ports:") as my router acts as a Firewall in my setup. Now users can log in to their network accounts again, but Server Side File Tracking is still not working. How do I know it is not working?
According to infinite vortex in this other thread, the syncing window is supposed to only show this:
On my clients, you can see it scan through the home directory before the file copying/syncing actually starts.

Exclude large files from mobile home sync

Hi, is there a way to exclude files from mobile home sync based on their file size? For example, I work with many VMs on my MacBook Pro, juggling around between different installation ISOs for various Linux distros and version of Windows. For the mostpart, these large ISOs (some pushing 4GB in size) are only used on my MacBook and not on my Mac Mini running OS X Lion Server.
I have mobile home sync set up, and it's been working great, until I happen to download a large file. If I'm not paying attention, my home directory will begin to sync with the server, pushing these large files over the wireless network, soaking up all of the bandwidth.
I understand I can create specific directories to exclude from syncing via Workgroup Manager, and also use various rules with regex in regard to the naming of the files and directories that should also be excluded from sync. But I'm often juggling around files of various formats between various directories in my development environment, and it would be troublesome to write rules that would encapsulate all of the scenarios. The most simple solution would be to base it on file size, and I can't seem to find much on this in Workgroup Manager.
Anyone know of a way to exclude files from mobile home sync based on their file size?

Hi, is there a way to exclude files from mobile home sync based on their file size? For example, I work with many VMs on my MacBook Pro, juggling around between different installation ISOs for various Linux distros and version of Windows. For the mostpart, these large ISOs (some pushing 4GB in size) are only used on my MacBook and not on my Mac Mini running OS X Lion Server.
I have mobile home sync set up, and it's been working great, until I happen to download a large file. If I'm not paying attention, my home directory will begin to sync with the server, pushing these large files over the wireless network, soaking up all of the bandwidth.
I understand I can create specific directories to exclude from syncing via Workgroup Manager, and also use various rules with regex in regard to the naming of the files and directories that should also be excluded from sync. But I'm often juggling around files of various formats between various directories in my development environment, and it would be troublesome to write rules that would encapsulate all of the scenarios. The most simple solution would be to base it on file size, and I can't seem to find much on this in Workgroup Manager.
Anyone know of a way to exclude files from mobile home sync based on their file size?

Mobile home syncing problem

Hi all,
I have a mobile home syncing problem. When the sync runs it returns the following error:
Unknown error: -[SStore myNodeForNode:isDestNode:]: Unable to find node for "Pictures/iPhoto Library/Data/2008/6-Aug-08/DSC00042.jpg" in store "HomeSyncMirrorPeer-DfrxJp1ET07-zivj" Please try again later. If this problem persists, contact your network administrator.
This file does not exist both on the server and on my mobile laptop.
Any ideas how to solve this?
Thanks,
Ziv

Shawn,
I've done the deletion of those folders a number of times, with no luck.
The most recent attempt to get this to work was:
1. Delete ~/.FileSync and ~/Library/FileSync from the server machine.
2. With a brand-new install of OS X on a laptop, create a local administrator, join the server, then login as the user account that wants a mobile account
3. Look at logs
I still get an exception on the server
0:: \[10/07/31 13:39:47.791\] EXCEPTION: Unknown error 2002 <-\[SNetworkReachabilityMonitor init\] (NetworkReachabilityMonitor.m:72): "(Error Domain=com.apple.SystemConfiguration Code=2002 UserInfo=0x10027adc0 "The operation couldn<E2><80><99>t be completed. (com.apple.SystemConfiguration error 2002 - Configuration daemon not (no longer) available)")">
0:: \[10/07/31 13:39:47.791\] USERINFO: {
0:: \[10/07/31 13:39:47.791\] NSDescription = "Configuration daemon not (no longer) available";
0:: \[10/07/31 13:39:47.791\] }
0:: \[10/07/31 13:39:47.791\] BACKTRACE: {
0:: \[10/07/31 13:39:47.791\] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x100014831
0:: \[10/07/31 13:39:47.791\] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x100014688
0:: \[10/07/31 13:39:47.791\] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x7fff82ffb535
0:: \[10/07/31 13:39:47.791\] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x7fff8300963e
0:: \[10/07/31 13:39:47.791\] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x7fff83001eaa
0:: \[10/07/31 13:39:47.791\] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x7fff82ffa1ba
0:: \[10/07/31 13:39:47.791\] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x1000036c3
0:: \[10/07/31 13:39:47.791\] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x10007f4e0
0:: \[10/07/31 13:39:47.791\] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x2
0:: \[10/07/31 13:39:47.791\] }
0:: \[10/07/31 13:39:47.792\] Bye (PID:38660)
as well as the corresponding error on the client.
I'm quite frustrated with the whole situation at this point. I'm sure some folks have gotten it to work, but since it has exceptions like this silently, it slowly corrupts the data in an account. I still want to get it to work, but am skeptical that it will.
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Mobile Home Sync damaged my settings. iCloud Keychain only partially restored. What can I do?

Mobile Home Sync (I'm using Mobile Accounts from OS X Server) on my desktop suddenly started syncing what it should not, all stuff that is normally excluded from a PHD sync, such as contents in Library. I stopped it, but not fast enough to prevent all damage. One thing that was damaged was the 'lock screen with password on sleep' setting and apparently as a result of that (or a combination of that) the iCloud Keychain was gone.
I was able (after some trouble, the Security & Privacy tab of System Preferences came up blank at first) to set the password on unlock from sleep, then I reattached the iCloud keychain. But the keychain only has a small part of what was in there and many passwords of web sites seem to be lost. Also interestingly, when trying to login to this community, some sort of iPhoto/Flickr login/password was suggested.
I also have a laptop that was not damaged. Is there a way I can get the keychain from there and use it to repair the keychain on the desktop?
PS. Apple: can you please after years and years of neglect repair Mobile Accounts and Portable Home Directories? iCloud is not only far from complete for that (a half-ready solution if at all) and it also means your data is synced outside of your domain (which is not always legally allowed). Mobile Accounts is so broken that I have started to use Synk to make sure some parts (such as the iPhoto Library) still can be synced to the server. And (as the above shows) it is quite capable of damaging the data on your system (rather a definite no on my list).

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Mobile home sync causing log cruft

Has anyone seen this error in system.log when someone is syncing from a mobile home directory?
Feb 23 19:13:38 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 0 vp == 0x13e291b0 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:38 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 8 vp == 0x13e291b0 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:38 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 2 vp == 0x13e291b0 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:38 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 8 vp == 0x13e291b0 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:38 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 0 vp == 0x125ecd80 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:38 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 8 vp == 0x125ecd80 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:38 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 4 vp == 0x141e15a0 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:38 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 4 vp == 0x144cc6c0 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:39 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 4 vp == 0x14182360 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:39 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 0 vp == 0x13fb8d80 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:39 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 8 vp == 0x13fb8d80 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:40 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 4 vp == 0x14182360 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:48 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 0 vp == 0x1420e5b0 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:48 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 8 vp == 0x1420e5b0 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
From what I understand, there isn't anything to be concerned about, this is the OS doing cleanup, but it is a bit worrysome that my logs are being filled with this.

I, too, have had the same problem since April 27, 2009 - that's when my last sync date is set.
However, when I look at both my iCals on my Macbook and my iMac and my iTouch, everything is synced.
And when I click on Advanced, the date is different than in my sync icon in the finder bar.
Anyone have any info on this?

Very slow mobile home syncs (Mac OS X 10.7)

I have a mobile account set up on my Lion server (10.7.1) that I access from two mac clients (an iMac and a MacBook Air) - I've only been doing this since Lion/Lion Server came out so I can't compare the performance with Snow Leopard.
The problem I'm seeing is very, very long times to sync from either client machine back to the server.
This applies to sync on log in and log out, as well as the regular syncs that take place while I'm logged in.
For example, before I went to bed last night, my iMac (mid 2010 27" i7 16GB RAM running Lion 10.7.1) started a home sync of 1.37GB total size.
When I got up this morning, around 10 hours later, the same sync was still going - now at "78 of 118 items - 1.37GB of 1.37GB - 83% complete".
It's not stuck, because I do see the name of the sync'd file changing every few minutes.
This is over a gigabit ethernet network. I have a similar problem when the MacBookAir tries to sync (usually over WiFi but I have tried once or twice with it connected by Ethernet to see if it made any difference - none).
It's getting to the point where I'm seriously considering abandoning mobile accounts, going back to local ones and just syncing a small subset of my files between the iMac and MacBookAir.
Has anyone else come across a problem like this? Found a solution?
Systems info:
Server: mid-2007 mac mini, 500GB 7200 rpm HDD, 4GB RAM running Mac OS X 10.7.1 Server
iMac: mid-2010 27" iMac, 256GB SSD, 16GB RAM running Mac OS X 10.7.1
MacBookAir: 2011 13" MacBookAir, 256GB SSD, 4GB RAM, running Mac OS X 10.7.1
Gigabit ethernet network
Good signal/data rates on Wifi
Mobile account size around 45GB

In the end, I 'solved' this problem by throwing money at it and buying myself a mid-2011 Mac Mini server (any excuse!).
After the initial slow sync (my home weighs in at around 45GB) subsequent syncs take a matter of seconds now instead of hours.What does tend to slow things down (to minutes rather than seconds) is if I swap between machines - for example, if I've been logged in as the mobile account on my MBA, log out then log in as the same account on my iMac.
Nevertheless, orders of magnitude improvement in performance so that the mobile accounts are now usable.
Perhaps my poor old mid-2007 Mac Mini just wasn't up to the task - though seeing as it's mostly just I/O, and it has a 1GB Ethernet port and a 7,200rpm 500GB disc in it (which I fitted, upgrading the original 5,400rpm 80GB HD) I'm quite surprised.

Report on Mobile Home syncing

Hello,
Does anyone no of a way to check that the computer on a network are syncing their mobile directories properly?
A report stating which users are uptodate would be really nice??
Many thanks for any help,
David Lee

Sorry for the delay in reply.
After revisiting this issue i tried the following based off your suggestions:
Deleted that mobile home from the macbook pro.
On the server reset the permissions to the users mobile home folder
Set server to "create moblie home" - save.
Again, when loging in on the macbook pro with the users credentials.
It goes through the process and creates the user but brings none of the content.
The sync starts and finishes within 3 secconds.
What I ended up doing was creating another user on the server, tried the same steps as above. ALL GOOD.
I then manualy transfered content from the old user mobile home ot the new and everything is syncing perfectly!
I'm wondering if perhaps that users old home folder had horrible file corruption or some sort of permissions issue. Or perhaps that this just wasnt meant to work between 10.7/8 and 10.9
His user folder was syncing fine with his 2005 Macbook Pro (running 10.7)? None the less it all worked out. I'll then ensure the new home folder has all the info and delete the old user.
Thanks for your help!
-Mike

Mobile Home Sync Issues

I just setup a 10.5 Server and 10.5 client - Home sync is working, however my login sync is set to do ONLY ~/Library - it seems to search the entire home folder, and syncs what ever has changed - I've tried reseting this and haven't had any luck. It seems to happen on any of the 3 accounts I've created so far. Anyone else having this issue? I'm in the learning process, but have to roll out a similar setup for a client pretty soon - I can't have my login/logout times this long .
Homes are setup via AFP
G5 1.8 Dual 4GB Ram 1x 75GB Raptor (Boot) 1x External 1TB HD
Clean Install no upgrade (this is a test machine)
10.5 Server Running:
OD
DNS
DHCP
AFP
SMB
PRINT
iCAL
WEB
10.5 Client (PBG4 1.67, 2GB RAM, 80GB)
- Clean install - 1 admin account - other accounts via OD/Mobile Homes

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<key>syncBackgroundSetAtLogin</key>
<string>dontSync</string>
<key>syncBackgroundSetAtLogout</key>
<string>dontSync</string>
<key>syncPreferencesAtLogin</key>
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<key>syncPreferencesAtLogout</key>
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<key>syncPreferencesAtSyncNow</key>
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Mobile Account Sync Logging?

Is there a log somewhere that I can check to see what files are synced during a Mobile Account sync session? Something like a sync log file?
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Errors in mobile home sync

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Happy holidays!
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