Mobile Home Sync Issues

I just setup a 10.5 Server and 10.5 client - Home sync is working, however my login sync is set to do ONLY ~/Library - it seems to search the entire home folder, and syncs what ever has changed - I've tried reseting this and haven't had any luck. It seems to happen on any of the 3 accounts I've created so far. Anyone else having this issue? I'm in the learning process, but have to roll out a similar setup for a client pretty soon - I can't have my login/logout times this long .
Homes are setup via AFP
G5 1.8 Dual 4GB Ram 1x 75GB Raptor (Boot) 1x External 1TB HD
Clean Install no upgrade (this is a test machine)
10.5 Server Running:
OD
DNS
DHCP
AFP
SMB
PRINT
iCAL
WEB
10.5 Client (PBG4 1.67, 2GB RAM, 80GB)
- Clean install - 1 admin account - other accounts via OD/Mobile Homes

There's a bucketload of new preference keys in com.apple.HomeSync.plist that affect what syncs when:
<key>syncBackgroundSetAtLogin</key>
<string>dontSync</string>
<key>syncBackgroundSetAtLogout</key>
<string>dontSync</string>
<key>syncPreferencesAtLogin</key>
<string>sync</string>
<key>syncPreferencesAtLogout</key>
<string>sync</string>
<key>syncPreferencesAtSyncNow</key>
<string>sync</string>
<key>syncPreferencesInBackground</key>
<string>dontSync</string>
I think that you want to set syncBackgroundSetAtLogin and syncBackgroundSetAtLogout to dontSync.

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I was able (after some trouble, the Security & Privacy tab of System Preferences came up blank at first) to set the password on unlock from sleep, then I reattached the iCloud keychain. But the keychain only has a small part of what was in there and many passwords of web sites seem to be lost. Also interestingly, when trying to login to this community, some sort of iPhoto/Flickr login/password was suggested.
I also have a laptop that was not damaged. Is there a way I can get the keychain from there and use it to repair the keychain on the desktop?
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Q abt. "Server Side File Tracking for Mobile Home Sync"

I am following the steps "To optimize the file server for mobile accounts" which are listed on page 157 in Mac OS X Server v10.6 - User Management :
In Server Admin, click the disclosure triangle for the server hosting network home folders for mobile accounts.
If Firewall isn’t listed, select the server, click Settings, click Services, select Firewall, and then click Save.
Select Firewall, click Settings, and then click Services.
Choose the address range for your users’ computers from the “Edit Services for” pop-up menu.
Select “Allow only traffic from ‘ipaddress’ to any of these ports,” select the Allow checkbox for Mobile Account Sync (port 2336), and then click Save.
Select the server, click Settings, and then click General.
Select “Server Side File Tracking for Mobile Home Sync” and then click Save.
My questions is:
In step 2, I added "Firewall" to the services. I continued with the following steps, but nowhere does it say to press the button "Start Firewall", so as of right now Firewall is listed, but not activated - it's gray and not green. Should I turn on the Firewall Service? In my setup, a cable modem/router is acting Firewall between WAN and LAN (small private home network).

I can't get Server Side File Tracking to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Here's what I've done:
1. Followed the instructions in "Mac OS X Server v10.6 - User Management" as per the first post in this thread.
2. Tried turning on the Firewall Service - resulting in clients unable to log in to their network accounts.
3. In Server Admin, under Firewall>Settings>Services, with 192.168-net selected in the pop-up menu entitled "Editing services for", I then chose "Allow all traffic" (instead of "Allow only traffic to these ports:") as my router acts as a Firewall in my setup. Now users can log in to their network accounts again, but Server Side File Tracking is still not working. How do I know it is not working?
According to infinite vortex in this other thread, the syncing window is supposed to only show this:
On my clients, you can see it scan through the home directory before the file copying/syncing actually starts.

Exclude large files from mobile home sync

Hi, is there a way to exclude files from mobile home sync based on their file size? For example, I work with many VMs on my MacBook Pro, juggling around between different installation ISOs for various Linux distros and version of Windows. For the mostpart, these large ISOs (some pushing 4GB in size) are only used on my MacBook and not on my Mac Mini running OS X Lion Server.
I have mobile home sync set up, and it's been working great, until I happen to download a large file. If I'm not paying attention, my home directory will begin to sync with the server, pushing these large files over the wireless network, soaking up all of the bandwidth.
I understand I can create specific directories to exclude from syncing via Workgroup Manager, and also use various rules with regex in regard to the naming of the files and directories that should also be excluded from sync. But I'm often juggling around files of various formats between various directories in my development environment, and it would be troublesome to write rules that would encapsulate all of the scenarios. The most simple solution would be to base it on file size, and I can't seem to find much on this in Workgroup Manager.
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Hi, is there a way to exclude files from mobile home sync based on their file size? For example, I work with many VMs on my MacBook Pro, juggling around between different installation ISOs for various Linux distros and version of Windows. For the mostpart, these large ISOs (some pushing 4GB in size) are only used on my MacBook and not on my Mac Mini running OS X Lion Server.
I have mobile home sync set up, and it's been working great, until I happen to download a large file. If I'm not paying attention, my home directory will begin to sync with the server, pushing these large files over the wireless network, soaking up all of the bandwidth.
I understand I can create specific directories to exclude from syncing via Workgroup Manager, and also use various rules with regex in regard to the naming of the files and directories that should also be excluded from sync. But I'm often juggling around files of various formats between various directories in my development environment, and it would be troublesome to write rules that would encapsulate all of the scenarios. The most simple solution would be to base it on file size, and I can't seem to find much on this in Workgroup Manager.
Anyone know of a way to exclude files from mobile home sync based on their file size?

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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Report on Mobile Home syncing

Hello,
Does anyone no of a way to check that the computer on a network are syncing their mobile directories properly?
A report stating which users are uptodate would be really nice??
Many thanks for any help,
David Lee

Sorry for the delay in reply.
After revisiting this issue i tried the following based off your suggestions:
Deleted that mobile home from the macbook pro.
On the server reset the permissions to the users mobile home folder
Set server to "create moblie home" - save.
Again, when loging in on the macbook pro with the users credentials.
It goes through the process and creates the user but brings none of the content.
The sync starts and finishes within 3 secconds.
What I ended up doing was creating another user on the server, tried the same steps as above. ALL GOOD.
I then manualy transfered content from the old user mobile home ot the new and everything is syncing perfectly!
I'm wondering if perhaps that users old home folder had horrible file corruption or some sort of permissions issue. Or perhaps that this just wasnt meant to work between 10.7/8 and 10.9
His user folder was syncing fine with his 2005 Macbook Pro (running 10.7)? None the less it all worked out. I'll then ensure the new home folder has all the info and delete the old user.
Thanks for your help!
-Mike

Disappearing Contacts, Mobile Me Sync Issues, Calendar crash-Answers??

I'll try to keep this post brief but hopefully it will help provide some possible answers for frustrated users experiencing the random complete wipe out of all contacts and calendar data when syncing with mobile me using either push or fetch. After several weeks of experiencing these random sync issues and spending several hours over several days between tech support calls with iPhone then Mobile Me support and then finally a genius bar appointment where the genius said he didn't have a clue and simply offered to replace my phone.
The next morning, SAME PROBLEMS... and through it all NO ONE could tell me why my sync was so randomly unreliable. Every other day for no apparent reason, my phone would suddenly lose all contacts and/or calendar data. (A few thousand contacts and two years of calendar data). It was both frustrating and strange—even stranger that Apple techs had no clue why and seemed to think no one else was having this issue.
I tried everything - complete restores, resets, deleting and re-adding the mobileme account, etc., etc., etc. One tech support person finally said, "good luck..." The others kept handing me off the higher levels of support... until finally they just said "we don't know why this is happening." I was waiting for someone to just say, "Look, we have issues with mobile me, so hang in there and eventually it will work." I can be patient and I still think the iphone is the greatest invention in recent years. But everybody I talked with at Apple seemed to think this should be working flawlessly.
I also started having a crash on the calendar anytime I tried to see the list view for "all calendars." This was frustrating because that's the best feature of the calendar app!
I was prepared to just return to syncing with my computer and wait for the software to improve between the phone and mobile me. Finally, last night I tried a few things that seem to be working... and for the first full day, mobile me is actually useful to me today. (my fingers are crossed!)
Here's what I did.
1. I minimized the number of calendars I was syncing - I have no idea if this affected the sync, but I was syncing eight calendars, now I'm down to four. (You can easily export a calendar and import those events back into a different calendar.)
2. I did a complete restore of the phone (not from a back up) and the VERY FIRST THING, I added mobile me and synced only the calendar (set to push.) This cleared up the random calendar crash in list view and also mobile me was pushing data rather reliably. After a few moments my entire calendar was on the phone and worked perfectly. New events were transferred quickly back and forth.
3. I then chose to sync my contacts through the computer rather than over the air. I fear that the contact sync was somehow messing up the whole communication process between the phone and the cloud. Someone suggested that the number of "groups" in contacts might have an impact on the sync issues as well. I didn't need my contacts to sync with the urgency of "push" so this works for me. Plus I have a lot of contacts and it's just faster over the cable.
4. I then GREATLY reduced the number of apps on my phone. I originally had about 27 and I only reinstalled 9 of them. I did this ONE AT A TIME - starting with the most necessary and useful... and after each install, I checked the functionality of the calendar and mobile me. No problems. Perhaps I was having an app conflict?
5. Then I reinstalled the rest of my content - music, podcasts, photos. Still no problems.
ONE of these steps actually worked, and I'm not sure which one. My guess is that one or more of my apps was conflicting in some way. OR possibly something with the contact sync... but for the last 24 hours the mobile me calendar sync using push has been consistently reliable and useful. (for the record, mobile me email has always worked perfectly for me.)
No one with tech support ever suggested to me that I could be having an application conflict or any other problems with calendars or contact groups, etc. I've spent many hours on this the past few weeks... and for the first time, my iphone seems to be working with mobile me correctly.
In reading many of these posts, it seems a lot of others are having similar problems... so hopefully these suggestions might be helpful. If you have any thoughts as to which of these solutions was the correct one, I would be interested in hearing your opinion.
Thanks!

Are your Address Book contacts and iCal calendars/calendar events on your Mac synced with your MobileMe online address book and calendar?
When you say this data is not synced with your iPhone, none of your MobileMe online data is transferred to your iPhone, or after the initial transfer of this data to your iPhone when you first turned contacts and calendars for over the air syncing with your MobileMe account on your iPhone, the data is not kept synchronized with the MobileMe "cloud"?

Mobile home sync causing log cruft

Has anyone seen this error in system.log when someone is syncing from a mobile home directory?
Feb 23 19:13:38 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 0 vp == 0x13e291b0 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:38 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 8 vp == 0x13e291b0 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:38 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 2 vp == 0x13e291b0 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:38 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 8 vp == 0x13e291b0 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:38 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 0 vp == 0x125ecd80 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:38 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 8 vp == 0x125ecd80 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:38 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 4 vp == 0x141e15a0 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:38 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 4 vp == 0x144cc6c0 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:39 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 4 vp == 0x14182360 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:39 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 0 vp == 0x13fb8d80 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:39 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 8 vp == 0x13fb8d80 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:40 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 4 vp == 0x14182360 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:48 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 0 vp == 0x1420e5b0 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
Feb 23 19:13:48 mail kernel[0]: add_fsevent: no name hard-link! dropping the event. (event 8 vp == 0x1420e5b0 (-UNKNOWN-FILE)).
From what I understand, there isn't anything to be concerned about, this is the OS doing cleanup, but it is a bit worrysome that my logs are being filled with this.

I, too, have had the same problem since April 27, 2009 - that's when my last sync date is set.
However, when I look at both my iCals on my Macbook and my iMac and my iTouch, everything is synced.
And when I click on Advanced, the date is different than in my sync icon in the finder bar.
Anyone have any info on this?

Very slow mobile home syncs (Mac OS X 10.7)

I have a mobile account set up on my Lion server (10.7.1) that I access from two mac clients (an iMac and a MacBook Air) - I've only been doing this since Lion/Lion Server came out so I can't compare the performance with Snow Leopard.
The problem I'm seeing is very, very long times to sync from either client machine back to the server.
This applies to sync on log in and log out, as well as the regular syncs that take place while I'm logged in.
For example, before I went to bed last night, my iMac (mid 2010 27" i7 16GB RAM running Lion 10.7.1) started a home sync of 1.37GB total size.
When I got up this morning, around 10 hours later, the same sync was still going - now at "78 of 118 items - 1.37GB of 1.37GB - 83% complete".
It's not stuck, because I do see the name of the sync'd file changing every few minutes.
This is over a gigabit ethernet network. I have a similar problem when the MacBookAir tries to sync (usually over WiFi but I have tried once or twice with it connected by Ethernet to see if it made any difference - none).
It's getting to the point where I'm seriously considering abandoning mobile accounts, going back to local ones and just syncing a small subset of my files between the iMac and MacBookAir.
Has anyone else come across a problem like this? Found a solution?
Systems info:
Server: mid-2007 mac mini, 500GB 7200 rpm HDD, 4GB RAM running Mac OS X 10.7.1 Server
iMac: mid-2010 27" iMac, 256GB SSD, 16GB RAM running Mac OS X 10.7.1
MacBookAir: 2011 13" MacBookAir, 256GB SSD, 4GB RAM, running Mac OS X 10.7.1
Gigabit ethernet network
Good signal/data rates on Wifi
Mobile account size around 45GB

In the end, I 'solved' this problem by throwing money at it and buying myself a mid-2011 Mac Mini server (any excuse!).
After the initial slow sync (my home weighs in at around 45GB) subsequent syncs take a matter of seconds now instead of hours.What does tend to slow things down (to minutes rather than seconds) is if I swap between machines - for example, if I've been logged in as the mobile account on my MBA, log out then log in as the same account on my iMac.
Nevertheless, orders of magnitude improvement in performance so that the mobile accounts are now usable.
Perhaps my poor old mid-2007 Mac Mini just wasn't up to the task - though seeing as it's mostly just I/O, and it has a 1GB Ethernet port and a 7,200rpm 500GB disc in it (which I fitted, upgrading the original 5,400rpm 80GB HD) I'm quite surprised.

Where are mobile home sync logs found?

Did some searching, came up empty

This is probably too late for the OP, but hopefully someone else will find it helpful.
The problem is ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist.
If you're using mobile home folders, don't sync it. If you're not, script it to kill it off at login.
This what worked for me.

Errors in mobile home sync

Hey guys and gals,
Happy holidays!
I have a quick question about Home Sync. We are getting some errors when the Home Sync happens on our clients from things such as Google Chrome, and the Adobe suite. Is it possible to ignore those errors and not display them at all?
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IPhone/Mac/Mobile Me Sync issue - Contacts / Calendar

I seem to have lost all of my contacts and birthdays after syncing my iphone, mobileme and my mac. The only location which still has contacts is my iphone. Since contacts went missing, all of my birthday settings in my calendar are also gone...Any thoughts on what I need to do to restore my original calendar / contacts settings. This iPhone transition with mobile me has been somewhat complicated!

Prior to activating Mobileme you need to sync your iPhone to your computer to have all your contacts and birthdays on your computer. When you turn on Mobileme, you must sync the data to the cloud (Mobileme) from your computer first. Then when you turn on Mobileme syncing on the iPhone, it will pull your calendars and contacts from the cloud. Make sure you verify that the calendar is in the cloud before syncing the iPhone.
Do you have Mobileme syncing turned on on your iPhone? If not, you're in luck with the contacts. You can turn off Mobileme on the computer, and have the iPhone contacts sync to address book through iTunes. Make sure you have at least 1 contact in address book before syncing.
If Mobileme is on on your iPhone, I don't know a solution. One thing for future reference, once you get things restored, is to use the functionality built into iCal and address book to create backups of their data. That way, in case a problem like this arises again, you can revert to a backup and retrace the necessary syncing to Mobileme steps.

Mobile home directory issues on updated clients

As I am testing out leopard server, I found that virtually every service isn't quite ready for prime time. That is at least in the advanced mode, which is strange as it that was the only mode the old server versions came in.
I am wondering if anyone has been able to do the following (in advanced mode only):
1. In WGM, set the mobility preference background sync of a user to an interval greater than 1 hour (let's say every 4 hours).
Then use a client (maybe even upgraded from Tiger)and sync in that same interval.
All the clients I have tested still sync to the previously set 1 hour intervals and when going into the mobility settings (System Preferences: Accounts: Mobile Account: Settings), all other intervals are grayed out. In WGM, mobility settings are set to merge with clients.
2. Too bad that the Directory Utility auto discovery tool doesn't work for advanced mode servers, so it has to added manually, but I have not been able to get SSL to work. Kerberos works fine and it's all I need but I still like the client configured for SSL.
Always comes up saying the the server doesn't support directory connections via SSL. SSL however is configured on LDAP (via self-signed cert) and no firewall setting is in the way. Or so I believe as the leopard client firewall functionality is a bit of a mystery to me.
Sorry about my rants; I am actually quite excited about several of the new server features as they address many longstanding shortcomings. At least it looks like 10.5.1 is on its way. Thanks!
Wolfman

Wolfman wrote:
I have not been able to get SSL to work. Kerberos works fine and it's all I need but I still like the client configured for SSL.
Always comes up saying the the server doesn't support directory connections via SSL. SSL however is configured on LDAP (via self-signed cert) and no firewall setting is in the way. Or so I believe as the leopard client firewall functionality is a bit of a mystery to me.
The CN attribute (Common Name) of the SSL certificate you use in LDAP must be equal to the fully qualified domain name of the server, in order for SSL to work.
If that isn't the problem, the logs may offer more information, especially if you increase the verbosity of slapd logs...

Managed Mobile Home sync problems

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.
Server is running 10.6.4 and macbook is running 10.6.4
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Why is mobile home syncing so slow?

I am running 10.8.3 on the clients and 10.8.3 with Server 2.2.1 on the Server. I have turned server-side file tracking on with
sudo serveradmin settings info:enableFileSyncAgent = yes
But the full story I got that from (http://krypted.com/mac-os-x/enable-server-side-file-tracking-in-os-x-mountain-li on-server/) does add:
Note that TCP port 2336 needs to be open for the FileSync Agent to connect over ssh on port 2336 to the server; however, ssh doesn’t need to be enabled on the standard port 22 but mobile users must have access to the SSH SACL.
- How do I recognize the SSH SACL in Workgroup manager so I can add the mobile users to it?
- SInce we have a different firewall than the 10.6 setup, how do I add port 2336?
- Is that the reason? Or is there also something on the client side?
Thanks,

Network conditions: gigabit ethernet LAN between OS X client and OS X server. I see a scan of the home directory.
I found the culprit in the FileSyncAgent verbose log:
<Login> 1:: [13/05/03 13:57:17.186] -[SSHIPCClient handleStderrLineOrEOF:]: [2013-05-03 11:57:17 +0000] 'Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal.
<Login> 1:: [13/05/03 13:57:17.186] '
<Login> 1:: [13/05/03 13:57:25.860] -[SSHIPCClient handleStderrLineOrEOF:]: [2013-05-03 11:57:25 +0000] 'ssh: connect to host myserver.mydomain.com port 2336: Operation timed out
<Login> 1:: [13/05/03 13:57:25.860] '
<Login> 1:: [13/05/03 13:57:25.860] -[SSHIPCClient handleStderrLineOrEOF:]: SSH: 'ssh: connect to host myserver.mydomain.com port 2336: Operation timed out
<Login> 1:: [13/05/03 13:57:25.860] '
<Login> 1:: [13/05/03 13:57:25.861] -[SSHIPCClient handleStderrLineOrEOF:]: [2013-05-03 11:57:25 +0000] '(null)'
<Login> 1:: [13/05/03 13:57:25.865] +[SStore_FS newStore_FSForPeer:alias:] (Store-FS.m:325): unlink('/Users/userfoo/Library/Caches/Cleanup At Startup/FileSyncAgent-1025/.FileSync/Store-FS-PHD-network-home.filesyncstatetre e')
<Login> 1:: [13/05/03 13:57:25.865] unlink('/Users/userfoo/Library/Caches/Cleanup At Startup/FileSyncAgent-1025/.FileSync/Store-FS-PHD-network-home.filesyncstatetre e') failed (2)
<Login> 1:: [13/05/03 13:57:26.582] Download/expand of "/Volumes/Users/userfoo/.FileSync/Store-FS-PHD-network-home.filesyncstatetree.b z2" took 0.72 seconds
Checking with a port scan by Network Utility I found out that the PF firewall is blocking port 2336 when connected from the clients. From the server itself both 127.0.0.1 and the real IP address of the server accept incoming connections on port 2336 (which is what I had checked previously, but that was a mistake, 192.168.x.x. is routed to 127.0.0.1 I guess and thus not blocked).
Now I just have to find out how to open up port 2336 from the local IP range for clients.
And I'm wondering how much of a breach it would be to open up port 2336 in my router and forward it to the server. How safe is Apple's use of SSH here? Is it certificate protected?

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