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.

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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.

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?

Q abt. "Server Side File Tracking for Mobile Home Sync"

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