Dreamweaver/Flash issues on network homes

In our environment, students use network homes running off OS
X Server. Applications are installed and run from local hard
drives, but desktops, documents, preferences etc. are stored on the
network. The system works fine in general, but we find that 15
students launching Dreamweaver simultaneously (again, all from
local hard drives) can bring the system to a crawl. Each student
gets a spinning beachball of death that can last up to three
minutes as Dreamweaver launches. This is baffling to me, because
the only thing being accessed over the network at that point is the
user's DW preferences file (right?)
We don't know whether this is a problem with OX X Server, or
with Dreamweaver (actually, we have the same problem with Flash).
However, the problem does not occur when students launch other apps
simultaneously, so I suspect something about Macromedia/Adobe apps
for the Mac, running off network homes, is involved.
Also, we find that when users use the Preview function in DW
while running from network homes, previews work in Firefox, but not
in Safari. Safari previews work fine when users are logged into
local accounts, but not when logged into network homes. This one is
*definitely* a DW bug.
I'm looking for people with similar experiences with whom we
can compare notes, and get a bug report to Adobe. This has been
going on forever.

Hi Russell
Perhaps there are two computer groups? One for older (white) and one for Newer (alu) iMacs? Managed Preferences for Media Access on the older iMacs is defined to allow USB Memory Stick access and is not allowed on the newer iMacs?
Tony

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We are currently trying to solve an issue with some user accounts whereby students can see teacher's user files. We have x1 as authentication, x2 as elementary file share, x3 as high school and teacher file share. All are Snow Leopard Server.
Here is the problem:
If a student is in the Finder and goes to the top menu bar and clicks Go > Network, they can see a listing of servers and computers.
When the student opens Server, the see the x1, x2, x3 servers. The continue to open folders, digging through Volumes, then the data volume and see the alias for Users. The open that folder and see all the Users.
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Do you know where the _unknown user permissions are from?
Have the servers been upgraded from Tiger/Leopard?
Also, in your group ACL permissions what are the custom settings you have? I'm guessing you're denying access to all admin/read/write?

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How can I get past this?
Here is the full list of errors:
Exit Code: 7
-------------------------------------- Summary --------------------------------------
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ERROR: 15080 Unable to create directory "\\escfil02\homedir\deancj\..\Adobe Flash Builder 4
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You're right that we're trying to create your default workspace in the folder one level up from your roaming documents folder, and that's what's causing the conflict between our installer and your roaming profile.
This is on our radar to fix for the next release, but here's a workaround you could try in the meantime. From what we've seen with roaming network profiles, our installers will have trouble mainly if your roaming documents folder has been flattened (redirected) to the root of your profile tree. If you can have your network profile reconfigured with the more conventional home folder at the top level, and the documents folder underneath it, then the relative path will be able to resolve correctly in your network tree.
There's more info here, about how to configure your roaming profile on the server to follow the conventional tree structure:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766489(WS.10).aspx
Depending on who administers your network profiles, you might need someone in IT/IS to help with this.
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I have a SMB who use a ML Server with network homes, each user logs into any of the iMacs in the building and their home mounts.
No issues their my problem is that printings wise each iMac has the same printers set up with the same name but if a user sets a preset on a printer this preset does not appear when they log onto another computer.
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If you do not understand question say so i will try and re word this.

Hi
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No issues their my problem is that printings wise each iMac has the same printers set up with the same name but if a user sets a preset on a printer this preset does not appear when they log onto another computer.
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Help
If you do not understand question say so i will try and re word this.

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I help a small school with the os x server and computers,
We have a mac mini running 10.6.8 server, and most clients are 10.5 or 10.6 with no issues.
Students have network homes shared via afp:// and have not had any issues
We installed 30 new imac, each running 10.8.1
If one student logs in with their account, it seems to go quickly, they get logged in see their stuff and can work.
If more that 1, it takes forever to log in. A class of 20 is taking 40 minutes for everyone to get logged in.
It just spins after the password is entered and eventually gets logged in.
All the other clients 10.6 or 10.5 still working fine, but 10.8.1 just is very very slow. The lab is unusable.
Everything is networked via gigabit ethernet, and once they get logged in things go well.
Any help or ideas would be appreciated.
thanks

I would recommend installing 10.6.8 on those new iMacs its a good OS and it works very well on networks as you know, that's what I have done on my netwok, after all 10.8 is in its early development and there will be issues with it.
And of course Apple are not really bothered when it comes to networking Macs, you can tell that when you think about the demise of the XServer and the poor server tools they now have, Snow Leopard sever in my apinion is still the best they produced, its been all down hill since then.
Also when you start getting alot of networked macs watch out for AFP crashes, this is a known issue that Apple know about and claim they have fixed in 10.7.4 but I can't confirm this as I have diched AFP and I use a Windows server with smb, (set up a magic triangle). this has been working very well so far, and of course that way you get to use a real print server.(something you don't get with Lion or Mountain Lion)

Folder Redirection not working on SMB Network Home Directories

I've setup network home directories on a 10.7.3 server. NHDs are available via SMB currently. I'm trying to setup folder redirection via MCXRedirector for both the ~/Library/Cache folder and ~/Downloads and redirect them to the local client. Client is 10.7.3 joined to OD. I'm using Login Redirection and the option to delete the existing folder and create a symlink. I used these instructions to create the redirectors: http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=MCXRedirector
When NHDs are available via SMB, the folders are created on the local client, but the symlinks aren't created in the NHD. I can switch the NHDs to be available via AFP, and then it works fine. I can switch back to SMB and the symlink stays in place and appears to work with no issue.
Am I missing something here? I can't find any documentation that says I can't use MCXRedirector with SMB shares, and I see a number of posts where it appears that people are using it successfully... so I'm not sure what is wrong? Any help or suggestions is appreciated.

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For folder redirection issues, we can go to Windows Logs\Application in Event Viewer to check if some related error events were logged. Besides, we can also run cmd command
gpresult/v or gpresult/z to collect group policy result to check if something goes wrong.
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http://technet.microsoft.com/library/cc786749.aspx
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Want to change the default save location- users have networked home dirs

I am doing some work for a school which is still using iMovie HD because it allows them to save their movie projects wherever they want. The issue is that iMovie 08 and 09 do not allow you to change the location in which they save their movies. Currently all users/students have network home folders, so their home directory, documents, etc all pull across the network. All students are limited to 1GB of space, and the system is an older G4 Server- 2GHz with 1GB of RAM and 2x 500GB hard drives. Since the students can make some large projects transferring that data back and forth can kill the server. Currently they are staying with iMovie HD so they can save it to the local hard drive, and when the student comes back in for class they sit at the same machine- thus giving them access to their stored movie files.
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I wanted to see if there was a way to change the default save location for iMovie 08 or 09 to the local storage rather then the "Home" folder for each user.
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hackths wrote:
.. The issue is that iMovie 08 and 09 do not allow you to change the location in which they save their movies. ..
wrong info.
iM08/09 has a different file concept than iMHD6.
Both versions allow to store Events (=huge files) 'anywhere' to usb or firewire connected, hfs(+) formatted harddrives. the Project files (=small files) can be de-located from 'internal' drive with vers09, for 08 you have to use a socalled symLink to de-locate Project files.

Users on network home directories hang after sleep

Hi,
I have the following problem: I have a 10.5 server with network home directories. I can login from Snow Leopard (10.6.1) however whenever the machine goes to sleep and comes back from sleep, the user hangs then if you wait a bit then it will come with the message that the share has been disconnected and it asks you to manually unmount. It will stay there forever. When you click disconnect, the system will unmount and remount the home directory but in the mean time, Mail will have reported disk i/o errors in the logs and throw errors (ranging from type in your password to 'rebuild index').
Going through the log files (and verbosity high) it seems that when going to sleep, the system doesn't unmount the network home directory. After it wakes up from sleep it attempts to unmount the home directory share which off course fails because it's in use and then it locks up, after you click disconnect, it says "spins reported" in the logs and goes on with remounting the shares.
The issue doesn't happen if the user is local. If anybody has an idea as to how this works or if they have it working, please let me know. I have tried just about anything. AFP shares, NFS shares, I have tried with or without the intr, nolocks, locallocks mount options - they all have the same issue. I have even tried another Mac Mini with a fresh install of Snow Leopard.

I found a possible cause and solution.
This has been on 10.6.1 with Mac Mini's. Then we got a new Mac Pro with 10.6 out of the (Apple) factory which I updated to 10.6.1, same issue. What I didn't think about is that by default I install a heap of software (including XCode, Adobe CS4 and Office 2008) with customized packages and workgroup manager preferences.
So I was mucking around with Cocktail (the tool to clean up caches etc.) and I noticed Snow Leopard hung every time after cleaning & recreating some caches. Now that I had a reliable way to hang Snow Leopard I investigated what could cause it.
I noticed during a PackageMaker session that Adobe CS4 installs a Version Cue startup script in /etc/machinit_peruser.d. I deleted it, rebooted, used Cocktail again and it went all the way through without hanging. Rebooted again, according to the logs it pre-linked & cached the kernel and several kernel extensions and that was it, no more hangs, no more issues logging in after sleep or screensaver.
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- VersionCue installs itself as a kernel module or something (the location says "mach" which is the kernel after all) which is not compatible with Snow Leopard.
- The caches and kernel extensions were 'dirty' out of the box but VersionCue (or something else that interacts with it) blocked my or Snow Leopard's automated attempts to clean them.
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You are unable to log in...; Network Home directories; 10.4 & 10.5 Servers

I have a solution!
Note: this is a new post because all previous posts dealing with this topic have been archived, MANY without an answer.
Problem:
Users with Network Home directories can't log in. After entering their correct username and password, the following error message appears:
"You are unable to login to the user account 'username' at this time. Logging in to the account failed because an error occurred."
Problem occurs with v10.5 Leopard client attempting to login to a Network Home directory hosted on a v10.4 Tiger server.
_Significant Troubleshooting Symptom:_
Client mac Console log (all Messages) contains the following entry at the time the user attempted to login to their Network Home directory:
authorizationhost[509] ERROR | -[HomeDirMounter
mountNetworkHomeWithURL:attributes:dir:Path:username:] |
PremountHomeDirectoryWith Authentication( url=afp://server.example.com/Homes, homedir=
/Network/Servers/server.example.com/Volumes/ServerHardDisk/Homes/username,
name=username )
returned 2
_Computing/Network Environment:_
v10.5 Leopard server doing: DNS; Open Directory with Kerberos for Single Sign-On; AFP for half of all users' Network Home directories.
v10.4 Tiger server doing: AFP for the other half of the Network Home directories. Also, note that Open Directory is not running on this server, BUT IT IS CONFIGURED (using Server Admin) as "Connected to a Directory System" and has joined the Kerberos realm on the v10.5 Leopard server.
v10.5 Leopard clients.
Solution:
v10.5 User Management manual
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/User_Managementv10.5.pdf
says share points for Network Home directories have to have Guest Access ENABLED. See step 5 on page 117 and step 12 on page 118. Note that these are two different settings, but seem consistent with each other.
I had followed/complied/set Guest Access according to steps 5 (page 117) and 12 (page 118) on BOTH the v10.5 Leopard AND the v10.4 Tiger servers. The solution that allows users to log on normally is:
Uncheck/disable Guest Access (as set in step 12 page 118) for the v10.4 Leopard server only. Leave "Share this item using AFP" checked. Uncheck "Allow AFP guest access."
The above worked for me. Your milage may vary. If anyone knows how to report this to Apple for fixing in the server software and/or clarification in User Management manual, please do. If anyone knows that this solution "breaks" other stuff, please post back.

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Hi,
I hope someone can shed some light on a possible issue.
I work for a primary school in the UK.
I have Tiger server 10.4.10 running as an Open Directory Master. I have a 1TB XRAID attached to this server where the Home Directories are hosted. I have been told that they are now slow at logging in (I am currently unwell at home so have not confirmed this yet).
It used to be a magic triangle setup but found there were problems with the managed prefs for the clients not being obtained on startup and network logins not working.
The DNS and DHCP comes from the AD still.
The OD has been set up to have the same kerberos realm as that of the AD (is this wrong) as the users are in both AD and OD with same username and password.
The users Home dirs for the OD are hosted as i say on the XRAID which has a striped array of 1TB so the HDD speed shouldn't be a problem.
The server is now connected to a 1Gb switch as are the clients.
I have added more ram to the Xserve (now running on 5GB RAM). I have read that an afp server needs a lot of ram to work effectively. Is this enough?
I have not set up link aggregation yet.
The total amount of users logging in at one time will be no more than 40 users at once as there are only 40 mac machines in the school.
I hope you can help as i would like to have something to go back to school with to tackle this if it does turn out to be true.
Any more info needed just ask.
TIA

Hi. Let me restate so I understand it right. You are using an XServe to host network home folders and also using Active Directory for authentication? I work at a primary school also and we have an XServe that has the users home folder on it, but we also connect to an AD server for authentication. We had some speed issue with logging in but as soon as we set up a time server to ensure that both the XServe and AD server had the same time the trouble was fixed. Hope this helps.

Stumped on AFP network home directories.

Heyo,
Been RTFMs on File Services, User Management and Open Directory. Also looked in www.AFP548.com but didn't find anything helpful.
We have a mixed environment and windows users aren't having any problem with network domain logins or using smb shares. Mac clients can mount the network shares with afp but network homes are a no go.
Made the changes needed for the firewall and tried it with the firewall off just to be sure.
The /Home share is automounted (not using the default /Users).
Guest access is on in Sharing and AFP.
Network Mount for /Home is set to Enable network mounting, AFP and User Home Directories.
SMB Windows Homes are in the same directory and run without problems.
Directory Access on the Client saw the server and looks ok.
Only ref. I can find for the login attempt is under Open Directory Password Service Server Log:
Apr 23 2006 16:42:31 RSAVALIDATE: success.
Apr 23 2006 16:42:31 USER: {0x00000000000000000000000000000001, netadmin} is the current user.
Apr 23 2006 16:42:31 AUTH2: {0x00000000000000000000000000000001, netadmin} CRAM-MD5 authentication succeeded.
Apr 23 2006 16:42:31 QUIT: {0x00000000000000000000000000000001, netadmin} disconnected.
and OD LDAP log:
Apr 23 16:42:31 ci slapd[81]: bind: invalid dn (netadmin)\n
Nothing in the AFP log.
Any thoughts on what I should try or something obscure I may have missed when setting up MacOS client network home directories with AFP?
Thanks
Mitch
Server: 10.4.6
Workstations: 10.4.6

Getting closer.
Kerberos wasn't running and the ODM wouldn't Kerberize.
This thread sorted out the issue:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2186542&#2186542
Kerberos is running now but still canna login for mac clients.
hostname and sso_util info -g both resolve properly.
but when i run:" slapconfig -kerberize diradmin REALM_NAME "
all looks good until the command (with the proper substituions)
"sso_util configure -r REALM_NAME -f /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 -a diradmin -p diradmin_password -v 1 all"
automatically runs and I get a list of:
SendInteractiveCommand: failed to get pattern.
SendInteractiveCommand: failed to get pattern.
SendInteractiveCommand: failed to get pattern.
and "sso_util command fialed with status 2"
the sso_util command by itself spits out
Contacting the directory server
Creating the service list
Creating the service principals
kadmin: Incorrect password while initalizing kadmin interface
SendInteractiveCommand: failed to get pattern.
kadmin: Incorrect password while initalizing kadmin interface
SendInteractiveCommand: failed to get pattern.
kadmin: Incorrect password while initalizing kadmin interface
SendInteractiveCommand: failed to get pattern.
etc...
even though the login/pass are good
any thoughts on what i should check or where i should go next?
Thanks
Mitch
iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)
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