Mobile Account Sync Problem on Server

I am using home folder syncing on a network with an iMac and a MacBook Pro. The iMac is the Open Directory server where the network user home folders are stored, and is also a workstation used by the network users.
Does anyone know how to avoid this?
There was a problem connecting to the server "server.______.___".
This file server is available on your computer. Access the volumes and files locally.
It seems to happen regardless of whether I use the local home directories as the network shares, or another folder share.
Thanks

Sorry to hear this is biting you too. I've been trying to figure out what causes this error for more than a year. Until then, I can't mount my Time Machine on my Macbook, so no backups. Amusingly, Migration Assistant managed to copy over the bug when I upgraded to a new Macbook. Thanks
Here's my ancient post asking about the same AFP mount error. Sorry I can't be more helpful

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without any netinfo accounts on the machine (exept Admin account)
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I had a similar issue and held off rolling out Snow Leopard clients.
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I have an iMac in my office that is running MacOSX 10.4.10 Tiger.
My User account is set up as a "Mobile Account" and syncs to a Xserve running 10.4.10 Server
I have purchased a new iMac that is using Leopard 10.5.1.
I wish to use this Leopard iMac at home and using my mobile account sync to the Server so that both my Office (Tiger), and home (Leopard) systems have the same user account information.
Leopard is supposedly backward compatible with Tiger, but is there any known or expected problems that I will come across using this syncing set up.

We do use portable accounts. This is so that we don't tie up the network letting users work directly from their network accounts. We also need to have the ability of our users to work at different computers, but still get access to their own stuff. We have it set up so that when a user logs onto another computer for the first time, he is asked if he wishes to create a portable home directory. We have them answer "yes". I think at that time it then brings down from their network account all their files and settings so that the new computer will look like any other computer that they already have worked at. This appears to creat what is called a mobile account on the computer. We also have syncing set up to sync at login and logout. This, hopefully will sync up their network directory to any changes made at different computers and thus make those changes appear on any other computer that they work at. Sometimes the user gets a message that their network account has changed since last logon and ask if they wish to sync to their network account or their local account. We normally tell them to sync to their network account, assuming that it has the newest changes. None of our users ever work offline from our network so their network account should always be the most recent version of any files. This is assuming that the syncing is working properly. Does this make any sense? Does it sound like we are doing this properly or is there a better, more efficient procedure?

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 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?
I looked though the WGM'er and didn't find anything.
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We have recently upgraded our servers from Leopard to Snow Leopard and I have rebound my macbook to the server. Whenever I synchronise it will upload all my new files to the server, however when I come to delete them from my macbook and proceed to sync it will download those deleted files back on to my macbook instead of deleting them from the network account. Also before the upgrade if I log in the my network account and logout and then proceed to log in to my mobile account a file sync message will come up asking me where my latest files are located and give me the options of Local, Network or Sync Later, that box however no longer appears.
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I administer an Apple XServe on a primary school with leopard fully updated.
We have about 20 macbook laptops which login using the wireless network and a number of hard wired iMacs.
Five of those laptops are being used by teachers who want to take their laptops at home. So I have created mobile accounts for them. But since I've done that we've been having endless problems with syncing!
I have configured them to sync every 10minutes and also during login and logout.
Even if they have synced already the login/logout times are extremely long and during syncing iPhoto keeps duplicating it's libraries!!!
I have tried to completely remove the network accounts and do them from scratch but eventually the problems come up.
I am not thinking to completely disable the mobile accounts, create a local account for them and ask them to use USB sticks to transfer files to their network directories!
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getting right what you do and do not sync is an art in itself, but I need to sync iPhoto library however I am very careful and only open iPhoto now when I need to.
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Dear all, hope you could help me with the follow problem:
I recently transferred my users' home directories to a new NAS.
The old home location was e.g. afp://192.168.1.7/homes/user1 (old nas)
I moved them to afp://192.168.1.9/homes/user1 (new nas)
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From everything I have read I was under the impression that once I left my network, my mobile account would not sync but was of course still usable as it is a mobile account and the homefolder does reside on the local hard drive.
My mobile account still syncs from home. What am I missing or did I just misunderstand?
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When a user logs into a computer for the first time it is set to create a mobile account, however we don't use home directory syncing because the typical size of our 200 users' home directories is over 100Gb which makes syncing home directories not viable.
It would be very handy, though, to have it sync the first time only at login so that our user directory template is automatically copied over which will save a lot of time setting up new users.
Accoring to Apple's User Management v10.5 documentation on page 203:
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I solved my problem. All I did was go to system preferences> iCloud. then logged in and unchecked my notes and then checked it. Sync was quick and proper.
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