DW 8.0 OS 10.4.6 Network Home Folder unable to save

We have clients running 10.4.6 and MM DW8.0. The users have
home folders on windows servers running Extremezip. The clients
connect to ad using the Active Directory plugin in directory access
and mount the home folders using AFP.
When creating a site, the error message appear when trying to
build the site cache.. "Unable to write to cahce file
"Students1:Test:username:Library:Application
Support:Macromedia:Dreamweaver 8:Configuration:SiteCache:Test.dws"
I have checked this folder, and the user has read/write
access to that folder. The file(s) and folder(s) are created
though.
When I then try to save a HTML file in the users home folder,
I receive the following error "Access to
Students1:Test:username:Documents:web site:test.html" was denied...
Again, the user does have read/write access to these folders, but
the files are NOT created.
Redirection of the users cache folders where taking place,
but caused issues with final cut pro and several adobe applicatons
as well as microsoft applications. This folder redirection has been
disabled and all ~/Library/Caches data is stored on the users home
folder.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.

I don't know if this is relevant but myself and some other users have been experiencing a problem since 10.5.5 where machines randomly kernel panic or freeze at logout.
Our issues are related to the SMB protocol in an Active Directory environment.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8341273#8341273
Also for those experiencing high CPU load related to AFP there is a long thread here:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8298601#8298601
I finally resolved my high AFP load issues (8 Xeons maxing out) but i'm not entirely sure which tweak fixed it, I think it might have been a setting on the XServe RAID, disabling "Allow Host Cache Flushing".
Hope this helps.

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Have checked the permissions of her ~/Library/Keychains/ folder and they're correct, as are the permissions for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain.
Double-clicking on the login.keychain file opens it up just fine in Keychain Access, however as soon as you close KA and re-open it, the login keychain's gone again.
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Hi,
We have a Mac Pro running Lion Server and a few iMacs running Lion. We are trying to setup network home folders for our users. The server is the OD master, and each user is configured with the correct network home folder path. User can login with no problem, but the interesting thing is that when the users try to open any iWorks file (doesn't matter if it's Numbers, Pages, or Keynote), the application would hang and give out a spinning wheel of death. Same symptoms for Text Edit. I've tried my best to verify the permission, and everythign seems correct. If I login to a local user and connect to the server using that same user's credentials, I can open the exact same file with no problem. Does anyone have an idea what might've caused this?
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Hi
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For redirecting home folders:
http://images.apple.com/education/docs/Apple-ClientManagementWhitePaper.pdf
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Another resource you may find useful:
http://www.apple.com/education/resources/information-technology.html
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Dear readers and admin's
A friend of mine which does support a Mac Mini Server 10.6.8 in a school does have the problem, that he is able to access the networked home folder of users as long as the client system is 10.5.x or newer, but if he tries to access the very same home folders from systems with 10.3.x or 10.4.x, he is not able to login.
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Kind regards
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Troy,
Welcome to the forums.
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For anyone interested how it's done in the Terminal:
- Go to /System/Library/ServerSetup/
- Then type "./serversetup", and let the Usages help you out.
That seems to be the only way to change a hostname of a server. It cannot be done in Preferences > file sharing or Server Admin.
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Hi all,
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Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast.local KernelEventAgent[47]: tid 00000000 type 'afpfs', mounted on '/Network/Servers/www.ourURL.foo.foo/Volumes/User_partition/BMCusers', from '//[email protected]/BMCusers', not responding
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Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast.local KernelEventAgent[47]: tid 00000000 received event(s) VQ_NOTRESP (1)
Mar 4 13:46:47 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
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Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: ASP_TCP asp_tcp_usr_control: invalid kernelUseCount 0
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Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: doing reconnect on /Network/Servers/www.ourURL.foo.foo/Volumes/User_partition/BMCusers
Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: posting to KEA EINPROGRESS for /Network/Servers/www.ourURL.foo.foo/Volumes/User_partition/BMCusers
Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Max reconnect time: 600 secs, Connect timeout: 15 secs for /Network/Servers/www.ourURL.foo.foo/Volumes/User_partition/BMCusers
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Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Restoring session /Network/Servers/www.ourURL.foo.foo/Volumes/User_partition/BMCusers
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Mar 4 13:46:47 BMC-CCT3110-Chloroplast kernel[0]: ASP_TCP asp_tcp_usr_control: invalid kernelUseCount 0
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I can confirm that after 8 months of fighting this problem, this worked for us:
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
Cafarom, thank you so much!!
File a bug report with Apple about this. I just did, here is my report, hope it helps you.
Summary:
    Some network accounts freeze soon after logging into OSX server. Upon logging in, soon after all the applications are reopened from the previous session, the problem starts (after about 1 minute from login). Applications will begin to hang one-by-one as they try to access the disk. This is fatal and the system must be hard-reset to recover.
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Steps to Reproduce:
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    Once an account becomes 'infected', it can be temporarily cured by backing up the contents, deleting it and recreating it on the server. However the problem soon returns again.
    All client machines and the server are running OSX 10.8.3, and are bound to the server. The server is the Open directory master and the DNS server for all machines in the network. No other servers or non-Mac machines are on the network. The server is using a self signed certificate and has the following services running: Calendar, Contacts, DNS, File Sharing, Open Directory, Profile Manager, Websites.
    All network accounts use the following Home directory on the server: /Users/
Expected Results:
    Upon logging in, applications respond normally, the system and applications do not freeze.
Actual Results:
    Some network accounts will always cause the system and all applications to freeze starting after about 1 minute from logging in.
Workaround:
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Regression:
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4/21/13 3:52:50.937 PM KernelEventAgent[42]: tid 00000000 received event(s) VQ_NOTRESP (1)
4/21/13 3:52:50.938 PM KernelEventAgent[42]: tid 00000000 type 'afpfs', mounted on '/Network/Servers/XXXXX/Users', from '//user@XXXXX/Users', not responding
4/21/13 3:52:50.000 PM kernel[0]: ASP_TCP Disconnect: triggering reconnect by bumping reconnTrigger from curr value 0 on so 0xffffff8026a6d370
4/21/13 3:52:50.000 PM kernel[0]: ASP_TCP asp_tcp_usr_control: invalid kernelUseCount 0
4/21/13 3:52:50.000 PM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect started /Network/Servers/XXXXX/Users prevTrigger 0 currTrigger 1
4/21/13 3:52:50.000 PM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: doing reconnect on /Network/Servers/XXXXX/Users
4/21/13 3:52:50.000 PM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: posting to KEA EINPROGRESS for /Network/Servers/XXXXX/Users
4/21/13 3:52:50.000 PM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Max reconnect time: 600 secs, Connect timeout: 15 secs for /Network/Servers/XXXXX/Users
4/21/13 3:52:50.000 PM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: connect to the server /Network/Servers/XXXXX/Users
4/21/13 3:52:50.939 PM KernelEventAgent[42]: tid 00000000 found 1 filesystem(s) with problem(s)
4/21/13 3:52:50.000 PM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Logging in with uam 10 /Network/Servers/XXXXX/Users
4/21/13 3:52:51.000 PM kernel[0]: AFP_VFS afpfs_DoReconnect: Restoring session /Network/Servers/XXXXX/Users

Change Network Home Folder to Local Home Folders

Hello and Thanks in advance for your help.
I created a mac network in our school this year. This is used for a video editing lab of 14 iMac's. I used a Mac Xserver with Server 10.5.7 on it and my clients are also 10.5.7. I upgraded my server hard drives to three 1TB hard drives in RAID 0 array. I created my users and decided to use true network homes so the students could use any mac in the lab at any given time. The Server has two Gigabit connections to it. This setup works great until you get more than 5 users at one time importing and editing videos. I believe the servers Hard Drives could not keep up with the data streams for multiple users and video editing.
What is the easiest way to switch the students network home folders to local home folders on the iMacs? I tried it with a dummy account that I've been using from the beginning but when I try to change the mobility preferences in WGM to create a mobile account at login and use default syncing I get 2 different error messages.
Either error while saving 14006 Or Error while saving 14084
Sometimes an error about DSutil.cp line 712 comes up as well.
Is it possible to have the students current Network Home folders sync to a local iMac and then switch them to use local home folders only? I'm trying to keep the students from losing the last few weeks of work.
Should I try to use the create mobile account on the actual iMac instead of in WGM on the server?
Thanks again,
Mitch

Thanks for the info Tony.
Just for other people who are looking for answers to this problem I'll give my specifics.
14 iMac workstations
1 XServe server upgraded w/ 3 1TB WD Caviar Black drives RAID 0
All networked using 1 Cisco Gigabit switch
1 GB to each iMac
(2) 1 GB connections to the Server
The original true network home folders worked out okay for Final Cut Pro users. About 6 could work at the same time, capturing and editing their work. For iMovie HD only about 3 could use it at the same time.
I could not get iMovie '09 v 8.0.5 to import to the network homes. Something about video library errors if I remember correctly. So I went back and they have been using iMovie HD with no problems.
There was a lot of dropped frames and time wasted on importing with time code brakes.
This is where I decided to create mobile accounts for each student on a specific computer set by the teacher. As stated about it will take about 3 minutes per GB of data to copy from the server to the local computer. Near the end of the student list (about 70) it would copy the data fairly quickly and then would sit at 100% for about 7+ minutes before It would finally complete and log off.
The login sync still only takes about 1 full minute and the logout usually takes 1 minute but can sometimes take up to 3 depending on how much capturing they have done.
After about 2 full weeks of use, this solution still seems very viable. There have been no complaints about dropped frames or lag while capturing. There is also no lag while using iMovie HD (which was very problematic before) during editing and playback. This is still great because at the end of the day they still have a mobile account and can access their data from any mac, besides the one they have a mobile account setup on. Also, if something happens to the server they can still login to the computer with their mobile account and still accomplish work and when the server is back up it will automatically sync on the next login.
I'm not sure if it was the network or hard drive speed causing the lag. My server will only hold 3 SATA drives and they had to be configured for 1.5 instead of 3.0. The RAID was also setup w/ apple software and was not a hardware card.

Sync my local folders to the network home folder?

HI, I use the Workgroup manager to create a new user and then under the "Home" tab to create a "HOme" for that new user. When I save a file onto that new user's local desktop; I want that new files to be copied to the user's home folder's desktop. How can I do that?
When I logon the Macbook with the new user's logon, I can see the home folders (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Library, Movies, Musics, ...etc) there on the server with a "no access red sign" and just no automatically sync to those folders. What do I miss out here?
Can anyone help? I want the users to be able to sync all the files from their Macbook to their home folders on the Xserve once they shutdown.

So you are saying that on the server you see red circles on the folders on the server right?
That would be correct because the local admin on the server does not have access to them. That is how it is susposed to work. If you would like to have access to those folders you can add the local admin to the ACL of the users folder and then propigate it down to the rest of the folders. You can do that in server admin.
You will then be able to see if the data is getting to the folders on the server.

One user (only) getting "disk full" errors for network home folder

I have a few users in my office with their home folders on the server. Everyone seems to be fine except this one person, who, a few times a day, gets an error saying that there is no space in his home folder and a program can't save preferences or Mail can't write new mail to disk.
I don't have quotas turned on, and there is 120gb free on the disk with the home folders.
Has anyone experienced this before and know what the solution is? It's Server 10.3.9 and workstation 10.4.4.

I have about 100 Portable home users also here and only a few are affected with this issue. Their home folder on the server is 15GB but can't write more then 3.5GB to the server. It is very wierd.

Disk full errors for network home folder

I have a few users in my office with their home folders on the server. Everyone seems to be fine except this one person, who, a few times a day, gets an error saying that there is no space in his home folder and a program can't save preferences or Mail can't write new mail to disk.
We Do have quotas turned on, of 15GB i have checked and the user is only using 330MB
Has anyone experienced this before and know what the solution is? It's Server 10.4.6 and workstation 10.4.4.

I have about 100 Portable home users also here and only a few are affected with this issue. Their home folder on the server is 15GB but can't write more then 3.5GB to the server. It is very wierd.

Step-by-step instructions for NetBoot & Network Home folders?

I've only done this once and that was about three years ago and I was operating mostly on trial and error, so I need some help.
Let's say I have twenty Power Mac G5s on a network, each with a legal OS X license (of course). I have an Xserve G5 running 10.4 Server and a couple hundred gigabytes of free space. I also have a bootable FireWire hard drive that contains a complete system build (including the OS and applications) that will run on any of those G5s. The build is set up with a single "Administrator" user account.
Normally when I do machine deployment I would use a tool like SuperDuper to image the FireWire drive onto the hard drives of the G5s, then set up a user account for that user on that computer. But what I REALLY want to do is turn my FireWire drive into a disk image that I can host on my Xserve and have all those computers booting from it. Additionally, I want to set up a network home folder system so that a user can, if he/she wishes, use a different computer on the network but still retain all of his/her 'local' files and preferences and settings.
I've Googled quite a bit and came up with a number of pages that presume to explain how this is done but 100% of them are geared towards people who are already super-savvy with things like Unix command lines and such. I am not. Therefore, I need a very specific, very detailed set of walk-through instructions that spells out exactly how to do this. Does such a document exist anywhere? HELP!

For starters, all the info you need is contained within the OS X Server PDF manuals, which should have came with your Xserve. You can download them all here: http://www.apple.com/support/manuals/macosxserver/
Second, you should really post your questions in the OS X Server discussions, as they're obviously more geared toward the tasks you wish to accomplish:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=96

More than one network home directory? (newbie question)

I have a brand new shiny XServer for a small school. They wanted their Macs managed and secured so I eagerly started moving ahead with it. Now, because of the specific file sharing requirements of the school (teachers want access to student accounts and files for homework and such) I created a standard, by-the-book Network Home folder. Then I thought about it, and I shared another directory as a Network User Home folder. And now none of my networked user accounts can log in. They all give me "can't log in, there is an error".
Is what I did possible? Allowed? Recommended? Discouraged? Can you actually define two separate Network User Home folders on the same server, and then assign different users to different home folders? My server crapped out and now I may have to wipe/reinstall the whole thing to fix it.
Does anybody have any experience with home folders like that?
Any information would be dearly appreciated,
Thanks.

Each user can have one and only one home directory, network or local. (Yes, even if you use Mobile Accounts or Portable Homes each account still has one home directory. You just have multiple copies of the user account and each copy has one home.)
You can have multiple share points that serve as home directory share points. In other words, not all of your users' homes need to be stored in the same place. By "network home directory share point," we mean a shared folder (share point) that has a corresponding dynamic automount record in the directory domain. The share point mounts at /Network/Servers/servername/path/to/sharepoint, and users defined in the directory domain can have their network homes defined there.
If you want to grant a group of teachers (let's call it teachers for simplicity) read/write access to student home directories, I'd suggest the following strategy:
1. Create two network home directory share points - one to house the students' homes and one to house the teachers' homes. For this example, let's say that the student home directory share point is located at /Volumes/Disk1/StudentHomes.
2. Create home directories for each student as you normally would.
3. Then add an ACL that allows members of the teachers group to read/write within the student home directory share point. For our example:
sudo chmod -R +ai "group:teachers allow readattr,readextattr,readsecurity,list,search,\
read,execute,writeattr,writeextattr,delete,deletechild,add_file,addsubdirectory,\
write,append,fileinherit,directoryinherit" /Volumes/Disk1/StudentHomes.
4. Now teachers simply navigate to /Network/Servers/yourservername/path.../StudentHomes/student's name and dig around to find what they want. (The teachers have read/write control of all student home directories now.)
5. When your teachers find it a little inconvenient to dig around in each student's home, suggest the following alternative: Simply create a share point to which students have read-only access and teachers can read/write. Within that share point, create "turn-in" folders for each teacher or class, and give students write-only (drop box) permission to the sub-folder. You could get more granular than this simple example where all students can turn anything into any teacher's "turn-in" folder, though.
--Gerrit

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