Gathering children from disk for local accounts

When trying to get mail get message "gathering children from disk for local accounts" and mail does not come in. Any ideas?
Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I had exactly the same problem when we connected our xsan volume to a multimedia area for post-production work. You are never really safe with local users so I deleted them and created users on the server with exactly the same name and a local home folder in the Users directory defined in workgroup manager, at first login the home folder is created locally and left as is.
Because we now have no actual local users (people only think they are) we have complete control over the SAN. Privileges expressly forbid access to the users created for local use only, everything is working well.
You can find all the info you need in the OSX server 'open directory' manual. I wouldn't go down the root of scripting un-mounting and mounting volumes for particular users because your going to be fighting the system at something its designed to do. Its treating the SAN volume as direct attached storage which it needs to do in order to use for editing etc.

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I'm using a Custom Command Shell, and for now just booting to cmd.exe. I've done the following:
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2) Entered "Administrators" as the LocalAccount/Group (yes, it's definitely spelled correctly.)
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Jamster,
I figured out the solution, but I'm not sure your problem is the same...
In my case, the problem was that the LocalAccount/Name was the same as the ComputerName. As a last resort, all I did was change the LocalAccount/Name to something other than the ComputerName, and voila, after re-installing the image the local account was
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Mail search in iOS 7 doesn't allow me to select messages from results for Exchange account

I perform an Exchange mailbox search and after getting the results I tap on Edit to select some of the messages from the listed search results but I can't select any and the options for Move, Delete and Mark are greyed out.
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I asked - so you expect hundreds, thousands of server admins (internal employee supported and hosted) to change their settings for you - rather than you changing the way the search app works? Response was YES!!!!
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Yes - I am venting.....
I am supposedly being transferred to the 'enterprise support team' now. Tech tells me I never mentioned that it was an 'enterprise' issue. I'm like - really - exchange account - and I mentioned the corporate impact of the problem from the beginning. Anyway - we'll see where I get.
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OK - just got off the phone with apple. I was just transferred to the enterprise team - who said that rackspace could pay $700 and then apple would look into the problem. No, I am not joking. I recommend that you all continue to post your problems with the mail search as often as possible - and hopefully apple will take some responsibility and fix the issue on the app side - rather than asking us to all supposedly fix it on the server side.
I am contacting my exchange server admin to see if there is in fact a setting that will 'fix' the ghosting of the emails. If there is in fact a server side work around - I will post back. If apple gets smart and decides that fixing broken corporate features matters to them - I will also post back.
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Using another from address for Gmail account in Mac OSX Lion's Mail app

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On my iPhone I've set up gmail as an Exchange accout and when I send an e-mail, my from address appears to be the one I select as default address in gmail preferences.
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I wonder if your Facebook account has been hacked, or See if you might have this malware redirecting DNS queries...
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Migrating to nsd/unbound from bind for local dns queries

As it was recently announced that the maintainer of the bind package intends to withdraw support for bind10 in arch when it is released, I decided to move my own systems from running bind to running unbound as the recursive caching dns server in my laptops, and this package in combination with nsd as an authoritative-only dns server on one of the local network machines to provide local dns. Having done a little research on these two packages before starting out, I found that nsd is in fact used on three of the root dns servers, and has an excellent security pedigree if the CVE statistics are monitored. For example:
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/17420 … or_id=9613
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/18208 … r_id=10197
both look good compared the stats for bind at
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Having got the packages working on all my machines now, and having had them running very well and stable for some days I thought I would put some information on the arch wiki to help anyone else doing the same migration. Once the migration is complete then the bind package is no longer needed on any of the machines and can be removed. I understand that anyone already running bind will continue to be able to run that package but it will then become unmaintained and it is therefore worth migrating to supported packages that achieve the same functionality but with added security since separating the authoritative dns functions from those of caching and recursive dns allows one to tighten security on the authoritative server in a way that is not possible when running all dns functions within a single package such as bind. In addition package updates including security fixes will then enable the supported packages to provide a cutting edge dns service.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unbound
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nsd
There are also a lot of useful hints on the web page at
https://calomel.org/nsd_dns.html
https://calomel.org/unbound_dns.html
and links from those pages.
Of course the same packages can also provide dns queries for wan facing web and mail servers and allow queries from outside of the local network as well in the same way that bind as been providing such services on many web and mail servers for many years by changing the configuration files accordingly.
I hope that this may help other users who want to set up dns servers on their systems.
Last edited by mcloaked (2013-03-16 15:06:04)

As it was recently announced that the maintainer of the bind package intends to withdraw support for bind10 in arch when it is released, I decided to move my own systems from running bind to running unbound as the recursive caching dns server in my laptops, and this package in combination with nsd as an authoritative-only dns server on one of the local network machines to provide local dns. Having done a little research on these two packages before starting out, I found that nsd is in fact used on three of the root dns servers, and has an excellent security pedigree if the CVE statistics are monitored. For example:
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/17420 … or_id=9613
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/18208 … r_id=10197
both look good compared the stats for bind at
http://www.cvedetails.com/product/144/I … ndor_id=64
Having got the packages working on all my machines now, and having had them running very well and stable for some days I thought I would put some information on the arch wiki to help anyone else doing the same migration. Once the migration is complete then the bind package is no longer needed on any of the machines and can be removed. I understand that anyone already running bind will continue to be able to run that package but it will then become unmaintained and it is therefore worth migrating to supported packages that achieve the same functionality but with added security since separating the authoritative dns functions from those of caching and recursive dns allows one to tighten security on the authoritative server in a way that is not possible when running all dns functions within a single package such as bind. In addition package updates including security fixes will then enable the supported packages to provide a cutting edge dns service.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unbound
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nsd
There are also a lot of useful hints on the web page at
https://calomel.org/nsd_dns.html
https://calomel.org/unbound_dns.html
and links from those pages.
Of course the same packages can also provide dns queries for wan facing web and mail servers and allow queries from outside of the local network as well in the same way that bind as been providing such services on many web and mail servers for many years by changing the configuration files accordingly.
I hope that this may help other users who want to set up dns servers on their systems.
Last edited by mcloaked (2013-03-16 15:06:04)

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IOBA wrote:
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Hi
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I'd like to publish my iCal calendar (iCal>Calendar>Publish...>Publish on: A private server) on my OS X Server 10.6.7 ().
Whenever I attempt to do this using my local account on tthe server, I get the error:
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# Based in part on Mac OS X Hint "iPublish iCal calendars with local WebDAV server Apps"
# http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20020912065811863
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$ chmod 0755 /private/etc/apache2/httpd
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$ chown www:www /Library/WebServer/Documents/webdav
$ chmod 0755 /Library/WebServer/Documents/webdav
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$ chmod 0755 /Library/WebServer/Documents/webdav/iCal
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5. Sanity check your apache config files:
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https://osxserver/webdav/iCal
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Client Machine : Locking out ability to login to local accounts...

One more question regarding OpenDirectory in conjunction with client machines. Our older PPC G5 Tower running OSX 10.5.6 has a variety of local accounts that users can login to directly in addition to any of the various OD based accounts coming from the server. Is there any way to disable the local accounts and force users to login to the OD based accounts only?
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Message was edited by: osx-addict

The local account will take precedence over a network account of the same name.
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However, I'm curious if you don't want anyone to use the local accounts, why not simply delete them? I don't know your exact needs, but it almost seems like all you'd need is a single local admin account (for emergencies or installs, whatever). Just make sure you migrate any critical data from your old local accounts to someplace useful and then simple nuke the unneeded accounts.

How to Sync pictures from AD for users in Outlook Contacts?

Hi we recently enabled adding profile pictures to AD from sharepoint. This works fine, the attribute shows in AD and the pictures show in Lync. Now in Outlook there are soem inconsistencies. I am are running
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I have managed to initially set up our two IOS devices - my wifes IPhone 4S and my IPAD 2 - in a not so smart way.
I used the same Apple ID account for both devices.
As such it worked, however after a few days we decided to have two different Apple ID accounts, one for each device.
I made a new Apple ID account for my wifes Iphone, and kept the old account for my IPAD.
This is as well working now with both these accounts, however I have found out that my wifes IPhone is still registered under my account.
This I will like to have rectified and cleared, i.e. I want my wife's phone cleared from my Apple ID account, so that my Apple ID account only contain information related to my IPAD 2.
My wife's Apple ID account for her IPhone 4S works fine and we do not need to change anything for this account.
However, how can I clear/edit my own account, so that it only contain information about my IPAD?
For example, when I use the Apps "Find My Iphone" I can see that the system is trying to locate both my IPAD and my wife's IPhone 4S, when I have logged on with my Apple ID account no. This show that one way or the other both devices are registered under my Apple ID account.
I will appreciate some assistance to tell how to rectify this matter,
Regards,
Morten

iCloud: Remove your device from Find My iPhone: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2702?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Delete your iCloud account in "Settings" > "iCloud" or "Settings" > "Mail, Contacts, Calendars"
Delete your Apple ID in "Settings" > "iTunes & App Stores"

Syncronization: How can i store mail for different accounts remotely, and copy most important mails manually to local folders on two devices?

Hello. I have two devices and two accounts, so what i want is this:
I only want to store mail from both accounts in a remote place and copy most important mails to local folders.
(I will be grateful for any ideas as to where/how this "cloud" can be - specially free places)
* Can I have a copy of these local folders in both devices and the remote storage?
* Could i synchronize devices so that: when i move a mail to a local folder in any device, its copied to the same folders in
the other device and the remote storage place?
* The remote storage place will have many other folders. When I open Thunderbird, I also want to see these and the mail
inside, and also be able to move mail from the inbox to these folders.
* One of the accounts is gmail. In Account Setting tool, there is an option for synchronization. If there is no easier way, I can have mail for other account copied to gmail, and just syncronize gmail mail. For this, how will I copy my present folder structure to gmail. And how can I syncronize the local folders on the two devices?
Thanks in advance.

The first awkwardness I see is that there's no obvious format in which to store messages remotely such that you can work with them in an email client. It may be possible to set the "Local Directory" option in the account in Thunderbird to point at some remote folder (DropBox comes to mind) but I have never tried this and I'd be nervous about what happens if connection can't be made, or if you happened to access it from two different places simultaneously. The other concern is that mail stores get big, quickly, and you'd be forever uploading and downloading large (multi gigabyte) files. Thunderbird stores what looks like a folder containing many separate messages as one big file, so there's no simple opportunity for incremental changes to be up/down loaded.
The whole idea of Local Folders in Thunderbird is to detach messages from servers, so they don't track what happens on servers. I say this to point out the distinction between files stored locally and permanently ("Local Folders"), versus cached copies of online files ("synchronized"). It's not safe to regard your synchronized folders as permanent.
So, synchronized folders on an IMAP server are "mirrored" in Thunderbird so you do have a local (albeit temporary and transient) copy of messages; this is done mainly to avoid repeatedly downloading messages if you re-read them, and it makes searching faster an more efficient. But these "synchronized" message track what's being done on the server, and so if they are deleted anywhere, all synchronized devices will at some point also see the deleted messages vanishing. (Unless you made a local copy in the Local Folders account.)
I use a gmail account pretty much as you have described; I copy or move messages to that account so they are visible in my phone, my tablet, my own laptop and my works computer. It's free, and it's "in the cloud"; the only reservation I have is its privacy. There are other providers (e.g. 1&1/gmx) who don't seem to have the data collection fetish that google thrives on.
It's fairly simple to create filters in Thunderbird to automatically copy messages to your "cloud account"; even better is to set up forwarding rules on the other accounts' servers, so your messages are automatically sent on and waiting for you when you next login, already in the cloud account.

Best practice for saving and recalling objects from disk?

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Most of my design schemes have consisted of a commanding objects which holds a collection of worker objects. Its a pretty simple model, but seems to work for some design problems. The commander and my interface talk to each other and the commander sends orders to his minions in order to get things done. For example, one parrent class might be called "Data Device Collection" and it has a property that is an array of "Data Device" objects.
The Data Device object is a parent class and its children consist of various data devices such as "DAQmx Device", "O-Scope Device", "RS-232 Device", etc.
When it comes to saving and loading data, the commanding class's "Save" or "Load" routine is called and at that time all of the minions' settings are saved or recalled from disk.
My save routine is more-or-less straight forward, although it still requires an overwriting "Save" and "Load" vi. Here is an example:
It isn't too bad in that it is pretty straight forward and simple and there also would be no changes to this if the data structure of the class changed at all. It also can save more generalized settings from it's parrent's class which is also a good feature. What I don't like is that it looks essentially the same for each child class, but I'm at a loss on an effective way to move the handling of the save routing into the parent class.
The load routine is more problematic for me. Here is an example:
Again, the desirability of moving this into the parent class would be awesome. But the biggest complaint here is that I can't maintain my dynamic dispatch input-output requirements because the object that I load is strictly typed. Instead I have to rely on reading the information from the loaded object and then writing that information to the object that exists on the dynamic dispatch wire. I also dislike that unlike my Save Routine, I will need to modify this VI if my data structure of my object changes.
Anyway, any input and insight would be great. I'm really tired of writing these same VIs over-and-over-and-over again, and am after a better way to take care of this in the parent class by keeping the code generalized but still maintain the ability to bring back the saved parameters of each of the children classes.
Thanks for your time.

I'm with Ben. Don't rely on the current ability to serialize an object. Create a save method and implement some form of data persistence there. If you modify your class you might be disappointed when you cannot load objects you previously saved. It mostly works but as soon as you reset the version information in the class, you can no longer load the old objects. This is fine if you know how to avoid resetting the history. One thing that will do this is if you move the class into or out of a library. It becomes a new class with version 1.0.0 and it no longer recognizes the old objects.
[Edit: I see that you are just writing to a binary file. I'm not sure you can load older objects anyway using that method but I have never tried it.]
This will not help you right now but there are plans for a nice robust API for saving objects.
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