Users accessing admin home folder

I have two drives in my MBP. A solid state boot drive and the internal drive for all other files including the home folders. There are three users and all of their home folders reside on the internal drive, not the boot drive. My problem is that the non-admin users somehow have access to the admin home folder and all its files, while the admin cannot access the others users' home folders. In other words, the permissions are all wrong. However, I have checked the permissions and my (the admin) home folder has the same permissions as the users' home folder. Hopefully that makes sense.
I have searched for a fix and repairing the home folder permissions through the recovery partition reset password utility seemed like it could be the solution but when I tried that, it did not allow me to access the true home folders on the non-boot drive, it only allowed me to repair the permissions on the boot drive home folders, which is not where the true home folders are located.
I'm on OSX 10.9.2.
Thanks for any and all your help. Hopefully my issue is clear and someone out there knows a fix!

You are correct, it is not supported though a program or user can do it with root access. That is very strange, I would take it to an Apple Authorized Service Provider or get somebody who can actually look at it.

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Model Identifier:     MacBookPro5,5
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Number Of Processors:     1
Total Number Of Cores:     2
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Message was edited by: therealvinz

therealvinz wrote:
Hi,
I have a problem accessing my home folder in the sidebar of Finder and in general starting the Finder from the dock. If I click on the Finder icon in the dock nothing happens, if I click on my home folder in the Finder sidebar a popup message is asking me with which application I want to open my home folder!?. Obviously Finder forgot how to open my home folder.
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0:: \[10/06/16 15:22:59.705] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x100014831
0:: \[10/06/16 15:22:59.705] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x100014688
0:: \[10/06/16 15:22:59.705] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x7fff82ffb535
0:: \[10/06/16 15:22:59.705] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x7fff8300963e
0:: \[10/06/16 15:22:59.705] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x7fff83001eaa
0:: \[10/06/16 15:22:59.705] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x7fff82ffa1ba
0:: \[10/06/16 15:22:59.705] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x1000036c3
0:: \[10/06/16 15:22:59.705] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x10007f4e0
0:: \[10/06/16 15:22:59.705] ?<C2><A0>|<C2><A0>0x2
0:: \[10/06/16 15:22:59.705] }
0:: \[10/06/16 15:22:59.705] Bye (PID:9460)
<hr>
Now I've not done much with OS X programming, but I've done quite a bit of Unix systems work. The client appears to be getting an EAGAIN error (essentially that the syscall didn't complete, but not that it failed). Ideally, it should try again, and perhaps there is something I can set that will have it do a couple of retry attempts before giving up?
However, the error on the server side is the likely culprit. I don't know what the error message regarding com.apple.SystemConfiguration means, but my googling for hints implies that it is some sort of error connecting over the network. To try and debug that, I had both machines connected to the same switch with firewalls turned off and the error continues. The previous lines imply that it is trying to delete a file that it created from the local disk. What bothers me about that is that in the WGM I set the home directory to be "afp://servername/Users" and it shows that it should be either "afp://servername/Users/synctest" or "/Network/Servers/servername/Users/synctest" but the server is accessing the home folder directly, so why an issue with network reachability?
Can anyone offer any hints as to what I should be looking for? I had hoped that PHDs would solve the whole multiple computer issue, but they don't seem to be working reliably for me. Since I get this issue consistently I'm guessing that there is something misconfigured on my end.

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.
Message was edited by: Benjamin Kuperman

Home folder location

In our lab environment we have local home folders for all users, but the home folder name does NOT equal the short name of the user who logins. For example, the home folder in Users is called Local HomeDir. The user who authenticated ldap and logs in is mtstest. When they startup Color, it starts erroring stating it can't find /Users/mtstest/documents/color.... and then attempts to create it, which of course, it can't so I get the error message that it can't create it and then quits Color.
I ended up having to have a script run at login and logout that creates a symlink to the user's login name to the local homedir folder.
I've never had this problem with ANY FCP product. Is this a new "feature"? Does Color support home dirs that aren't in the users folder or aren't the same as the users' logged in name?
Thanks in advance!

Part of the issue is that normally when Color launches for the first time you're asked to choose the location of the media directory (this is what I'm assuming you mean when you say you have changed the location), however, if you don't have the appropriate folder in /Users/, you get various error dialogs stating it cannot find/create the folder, then after dimissing these Color will crash.
Looking at the Preferences.prf file in ~/Library/Preferences/Color/ you can see:
<prjdir>/Users/markwarren/Documents/Color Documents/</prjdir>
<rdrdir>/Users/markwarren/Documents/Color Documents/Renders/</rdrdir>
<srcdir>/Users/markwarren/Documents/Color Documents/Media/</srcdir>
It's these paths that the error dialogs reference when they state they cannot find/create the items.
In the example above, Color will work as there is a folder (specifically a users home folder) called markwarren in /Users/. However, if there is no folder in /Users/ that matches the shortname of the logged in user, you will see the errors.
I understand that normally this would not be an issue, as all local accounts would, by default, have a folder whose name is the shortname of the user account in /Users/. However, it is possible you may wish to have a shared local home folder, or use a product that provides this functionality, or, alternatively, have a network based home folder. In any of these additional scenarios you will see the issue with Color.
Rather than have these error dialogs appear and finally having Color crash after dismissing them, it might have been better for Color to display the dialog allowing you to select the media directory, if it could not access the one as defined in the pref file. That or perhaps paths should not be stored in the pref file, of if you have to do this, use "~/" rather than "/Users/nameofuser/", or better still, just use a standard OS call to find the location of the home folder and work out the path from that.

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