Anyway to overwrite network home on client machines to start fresh?

Had a user that had some objectionable things in his network home (sync's at log in and out). He has logged into many computers, so his stuff is everywhere. I deleted his network home on the server and created a new empty network home. Is there a way to overwrite the old network homes on the client machines with the new network home using Workgroup Manager?

How many computers are in your environment and do you have Remote Desktop? If you have ARD, just select all the computers and run the command gracoat posted. Again, though, just make sure the path and everything is accurate. Conversely, if you have a relatively small number of computers (I'd say 30-40 would be about the max sanity limit), just go through them manually (could probably put a script on a flash drive to speed things up a bit). Now, a lot of computers and no ARD, you may be stuck with the two options you listed.
Although, after typing all of that... If you have it remove the home folder on logout, even if he logged into an old one and synced back to the server from it, wouldn't it just delete it off that computer when he logged out? Sure, it would be back in his account, but it wouldn't continue to be spread around to other computers and would essentially self-sanitize itself from any computer he visits. Of course, depending on exactly what the content is and your policy regarding it, you may have to deal with his account again, but it would just be in the single location of his mobile account.

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velu wrote:
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Wait.
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Firstly not only is this more than possible but it really should be easy.
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Alternatively create an account that is not related to the dwayne local account in any way. Let's call it 'user' instead with a password to match. You use that instead to connect to the server.
Treat every other user in the same way.
By connect I mean "Connect to Server" from the Go Menu. When using the Go Menu you can either use the server's IP address (eg: 172.16.16.254) or it's FQDN (assuming DNS is set up correctly) or even it's Bonjour name (eg: server.local).
It really makes no difference whether you create a user with a network home or for services only. It's all about how you connect to the Server. If you've gone for networked homes you could bind client workstations to the server if you wish (although there's no real requirement for you to do so) and providing the required network elements are in place and functioning correctly (we're rmostly talking about DNS here) users with networked accounts will be able to log in and access their home folders on any workstation that's been bound to the mac server. But you could just as easily not bind client workstations and use the same account details to access a properly configured server shares (and additionally the user's network home folder) by selecting "Connect to Server" from the Go Menu instead.

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Is there a way to have network home folders sometimes?
Here is the situation. (all servers and clients are at 10.3.9, but could be upgraded to 10.4.x)
In a school there is a 29 unit eMac lab and an iBook cart. The students each have a home folder on the server. When they log in to an eMac they use their OD/LDAP username and password. The OSX server authenticates them and then they use their network home folder. This works just fine.
But when they use the iBooks, they are using Airport to connect to the network. Network home folders are too slow to work over a wireless network, so they have to log in using a local account and then mount their network home folder to save files.
What I would like to do is have them login to the iBooks with their OD/LDAP information so that they can be authenticated using OD/LDAP but not use home folders when using the iBooks. (I could then put their home folders in the dock)
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Considered, but won't work for this application.
The students use different computers at different
times. For instance the question is about users on
eMacs some of the time and iBooks some of the time.
So they would have at least 2 different computers and
many people might use either of them at a different
time. So a single computer could have many, many home
folders.
Just to press the issue: is there a reason this is a problem (disk space, for example, or security)? Because the whole point of PHDs is that you'll be getting synchronization even when multiple machines are involved. If you're worried about home directories piling up, you could implement a cron job to clean them. I'm not trying to suggest that PHDs really will work in your instance--just trying to suggest possibilities.
In any event, it IS possible to modify your users' home directory settings on a client-by-client basis. You could, for example, have your users' accounts set to use network home folders for your wired machines, but override that setting on your iBooks to point to homes on the client. To do that:
1. Open Directory Access on your iBook, select your LDAPv3 configuration, and edit it (Services pane > LDAPv3 > Configure, select it in the next window and click Edit. If you've checked "Use DHCP-supplied LDAP Server" you'll need to uncheck that and create a configuration for your server; consult the server documentation for more information.
2. When you click the Edit button, you'll get a window for the selected configuration, with tabs for "Connection" and "Search & Mappings." Click the Search & Mappings tab.
3. In the Record Types and Attributes pane on the left, click the disclosure triangle next to Users, and do two things:
- Select "HomeDirectory" and delete it.
- Select "NFSHomeDirectory" in the left pane, and replace the corresponding "homeDirectory" entry in the right pane with the following: #/Users/$uid$. Then, click OK to save your changes.
4. Reboot the client, and log in as one of your network users. Here's what should happen: on this particular client, Directory Access will still log your users in with the account settings on the server, except the HomeDirectory attribute will be reset with the value /Users/<short user name>. That's what the NFSHomeDirectory line does: the sharp sign tells Directory Access to ignore the attribute in the user's server account, and overwrite it with the string that follows. The $uid$ tells Directory Access to substitute the field with that value (the LDAP uid field). So, for user John Smith, whose short name is smithj, the client will create a folder called smithj in the folder /Users, which is on the local client.
You could in theory use this technique to place the home folders anywhere on your client (like in /tmp), but it's best to use the default /Users folder unless you have strong reasons not to.
The advantage of this scheme is that you only set up the Directory Access preferences this way on the clients where you want to have local homes--e.g., your iBooks. Once you've correctly configured the Directory Access preferences and have verified that everything works, you can copy the folder /Library/Preferences/DirectoryService to your other iBook clients, so you don't have to go through this process on every machine.
There is one caveat, however. Configuring Directory Access this way will effect ANY user who logs in to your iBook--that is, any network user on your server. You can't set this up differently for different sets of users on your server--for any client workstation, all users on the server get treated the same. This is presumably what you want, given that you don't want to server network homes over wireless, but it's important to understand the implications of what you're doing.
The instructions above assume that you're familiar with setting up configurations in Directory Access. If not, you might want to read up on it.
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Right now, I'm just running the DNS, File Sharing, and Open Directory services. I setup a couple of Network User accounts, and I wanted to try using one of the accounts to log in to a Mac client (running Mountain Lion) on the network. When the machine first comes up, I get a message that says 'Network Accounts Unavailable,' and if I try to log in, I get the error message saying 'You are unable to log in to the user account "xxxxx" at this time. Logging in to the account failed because an error occurred.'
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Taylor

Contacts on client machine suffer from disk I/O errors

Contacts are running slow if not at all on my client machines. I check the logs and it is having trouble with accessing the files and or writing the files. all other programs seem to work fine. Mail hangs but I think it is because of the contacts issue. It seems to have trouble reading the contacts list and dumps the list and attempts to rebuild from iCloud and the server. there are many .unknown files in the library. The logs state that there is a disk I/O error while accessing /Network/myserver/Volumes/MyBook/Users/username/Library/Address Book (this is from memory but it is close). The contacts work perfectly (as expected) if the user is logged into the server.
I am running 10.8 server and clients with shared home folders. the user folders are on an external drive. the drive does have permissions turned on. I have wiped out the contacts directory in the Library folder and it proceeds to rebuild but the problem is still there.
would rebuilding the clients from scratch help?
David Urban

Hello
I have exactly the same problem (its taken me ages to figure where the issue is).
Currently running 10.8 Server on Mac Mini Server
10.8 Clients include another Mac Mini, 2x MBAs
31/07/2012 21:47:45.068 Contacts[340]: Unknown error reading database file, will attempt reimporting: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 "The file couldn’t be opened." UserInfo=0x7f8e7da52520 {NSSQLiteErrorDomain=2058, NSUnderlyingException=I/O error for database at /Network/Servers/mountainserver/Users/test123/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Sources/804A0C27-5BDC-42ED-B64B-0B4A48BB0C72/AddressBook-v2 2.abcddb. SQLite error code:2058, 'disk I/O error'} {
    NSSQLiteErrorDomain = 2058;
    NSUnderlyingException = "I/O error for database at /Network/Servers/mountainserver/Users/test123/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Sources/804A0C27-5BDC-42ED-B64B-0B4A48BB0C72/AddressBook-v2 2.abcddb. SQLite error code:2058, 'disk I/O error'";
And so on:
31/07/2012 21:47:45.069 Contacts[340]: Move Address Book store at /Network/Servers/mountainserver/Users/test123/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Sources/804A0C27-5BDC-42ED-B64B-0B4A48BB0C72/AddressBook-v2 2.abcddb to /Network/Servers/mountainserver/Users/test123/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/Sources/804A0C27-5BDC-42ED-B64B-0B4A48BB0C72/AddressBook-v2 2.abcddb.3DE2BE43-E068-4AED-A635-AE1988E6118F.unknown
31/07/2012 21:47:58.145 Contacts[340]: CoreData: error: (2058) I/O error for database at /Network/Servers/mountainserver/Users/test123/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb. SQLite error code:2058, 'disk I/O error'
31/07/2012 21:47:58.146 Contacts[340]: Unknown error reading database file, will attempt reimporting: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 "The file couldn’t be opened." UserInfo=0x7f8e7bcb5b40 {NSSQLiteErrorDomain=2058, NSUnderlyingException=I/O error for database at /Network/Servers/mountainserver/Users/test123/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb. SQLite error code:2058, 'disk I/O error'} {
    NSSQLiteErrorDomain = 2058;
    NSUnderlyingException = "I/O error for database at /Network/Servers/mountainserver/Users/test123/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb. SQLite error code:2058, 'disk I/O error'";
31/07/2012 21:47:58.147 Contacts[340]: Move Address Book store at /Network/Servers/mountainserver/Users/test123/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb to /Network/Servers/mountainserver/Users/test123/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb.F13475A4-E1FC-4427-91FF-7FE935E2F40C .unknown
31/07/2012 21:47:58.890 Mail[333]: CoreData: error: (522) I/O error for database at /Network/Servers/mountainserver/Users/test123/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail /Data/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb. SQLite error code:522, 'disk I/O error'
31/07/2012 21:47:58.891 Mail[333]: Core Data: annotation: -executeRequest: encountered exception = I/O error for database at /Network/Servers/mountainserver/Users/test123/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail /Data/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb. SQLite error code:522, 'disk I/O error' with userInfo = {
    NSFilePath = "/Network/Servers/mountainserver/Users/test123/Library/Containers/com.apple.mai l/Data/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb";
    NSSQLiteErrorDomain = 522;
At first I thought it may be related to upgraded 10.8 clients and server i.e. went throught the normal install option without re-installing OSX.
So I completely rebuild (i.e. erased and then installed Mountain Lion from USB stick) the server and the client machines...but I still get the same issue, so clearly this is NOT the solution.
I have also observed (upon reading others' issues with Contacts/mail) apple forums - so I followed the the same action (trashed the Address Book folder in ~Library/Application Support/ ) after unchecking everything in iCloud in system prefs/restarting etc.) but this doesn't so solve the problem either
I also observed teh following behaviours:
Login into iCloud for the first time - appears to be ok
Run Contacts - appears to be ok
Wait the addresses to sync from iCloud - appears to be ok
Quit
Run Contacts - still appears to be ok
(i.e. the errors above are not displayed in log)
Run Mail (which takes a long time)
Contacts sudden looses all address and effectively both Mail and Contacts freeeze. It is at this point I start seeing the above errors
I get a further odd error in Contacts (in a triange with '!' warning)
Basically Contacts and mail don't seem to want to work together - they appear ok in isolation - obviously this isn't acceptable.
I've noted that if I create a local logon on any one of the client macs, the issue with contacts/mail does not occur and runs perfectly smoothly. So in my eyes it appears to be a problem in Mountain Lion Server/Client Combo Only (I did not have this issue under Lion Server/Client Combo)
H - E - L - P !!

(Cisco Historical Reporting / HRC ) All available connections to database server are in use by other client machines. Please try again later and check the log file for error 5054

Hi All,
I am getting an error message "All available connections to database server are in use by other client machines. Please try again later and check the log file for error 5054" when trying to log into HRC (This user has the reporting capabilities) . I checked the log files this is what i found out
The log file stated that there were ongoing connections of HRC with the CCX (I am sure there isn't any active login to HRC)
|| When you tried to login the following error was being displayed because the maximum number of connections were reached for the server . We can see that a total number of 5 connections have been configured . ||
1: 6/20/2014 9:13:49 AM %CHC-LOG_SUBFAC-3-UNK:Current number of connections (5) from historical Clients/Scheduler to 'CRA_DATABASE' database exceeded the maximum number of possible connections (5).Check with your administrator about changing this limit on server (wfengine.properties), however this might impact server performance.
|| Below we can see all 5 connections being used up . ||
2: 6/20/2014 9:13:49 AM %CHC-LOG_SUBFAC-3-UNK:[DB Connections From Clients (count=5)]|[(#1) 'username'='uccxhrc','hostname'='3SK5FS1.ucsfmedicalcenter.org']|[(#2) 'username'='uccxhrc','hostname'='PFS-HHXDGX1.ucsfmedicalcenter.org']|[(#3) 'username'='uccxhrc','hostname'='PFS-HHXDGX1.ucsfmedicalcenter.org']|[(#4) 'username'='uccxhrc','hostname'='PFS-HHXDGX1.ucsfmedicalcenter.org']|[(#5) 'username'='uccxhrc','hostname'='47BMMM1.ucsfmedicalcenter.org']
|| Once the maximum number of connection was reached it threw an error . ||
3: 6/20/2014 9:13:49 AM %CHC-LOG_SUBFAC-3-UNK:Number of max connection to 'CRA_DATABASE' database was reached! Connection could not be established.
4: 6/20/2014 9:13:49 AM %CHC-LOG_SUBFAC-3-UNK:Database connection to 'CRA_DATABASE' failed due to (All available connections to database server are in use by other client machines. Please try again later and check the log file for error 5054.)
Current exact UCCX Version 9.0.2.11001-24
Current CUCM Version 8.6.2.23900-10
Business impact Not Critical
Exact error message All available connections to database server are in use by other client machines. Please try again later and check the log file for error 5054
What is the OS version of the PC you are running and is it physical machine or virtual machine that is running the HRC client ..
OS Version Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit and it’s a physical machine.
. The Max DB Connections for Report Client Sessions is set to 5 for each servers (There are two servers). The no of HR Sessions is set to 10.
I wanted to know if there is a way to find the HRC sessions active now and terminate the one or more or all of that sessions from the server end ?

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