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

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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
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0:: \[10/07/31 13:39:47.791\] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x2
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Just found your post as I was having a similar problem. Our setup was with all Apple OD though.
I had exactly the same problem with new workstations having the user setup with the default template. We also had some odd problems syncing specific files we never had trouble with before. Our issue arrived last week when our main sharing and userhomes data drive died and we had to recover from a backup. Once we recovered, everything except for sync of portable home directories came back properly.
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I'm not sure about other implications of shutting off the server side tracking but now we sync correctly again.
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I just set up mobile accounts and mobile home syncing on my computers so network users have a local home rather than just their network home. However it is interesting to me that the desktop picture is independent of the network home. That is to say, each machine has its own desktop picture for any one account.
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We have a studio of 20 graphical workstations and we've had issues that users did not backup their home folder/work. After a lot of discussion and contemplating we bought a new server for mobile homes. So, users have their home folder where they do all of their daily work and every morning and evening when they login and when they logout their home folder is being synced to the server so that all their latest work in on the server. The server is being backupped every night so in this way all data will be backupped and save. That was the idea…
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Important to know is that every user has their own workstations and that they do not change workstations. So in that regard they have all their data in one place, THEIR workstation, and that data has to sync one-way: to the server. I could imagine that when people change stations on a regular basis it is hard for the sync system to keep up with the latest changes, but that can't be the issue here.
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