Re: .Mac Synching and Network Home Craziness

Subject: Re: .Mac Synching and Network Home Craziness

From: Brian Garrett <email@hidden>

Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:12:00 -0700

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Peter,

I've experienced EXACTLY the same types of problems you've described.

I had two macs - both with .Mac sync turned on with keychain being one of the items to be sync'ed. I would constantly loose my .Mac login information in my System Preferences on my laptop and/or desktop depending upon which machine just finished it's hourly sync.

I removed the ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain on one system hoping that the sync copy would come from the .Mac account. Basically one computer being the keychain "master" and the other one being the keychain slave.

Ultimately, I never figured out exactly what was causing the problem, but it wasn't until I stopped sync'ing the keychain did all of problem problems disappear. Ever since then, everything in .Mac has been working fine, and I haven't noticed any problems with passwords or keychain information being passed around.

Hope that helps.

Brian

On Jan 19, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Peter Schwenk wrote:

Hello:
I have a user (network home via AFP) that has a .Mac account
configured. .Mac synchronization seems to reek havoc with his
keychain. Of course, his keychain was part of what was supposed to
be synchronized, and it sorta worked for a while. But now as soon
as .Mac synchs, his keychain becomes unusable. If he uses Keychain
First Aid, the keychain works until the next time that .Mac synchs.
He also has his secretary's computer hooked into his .Mac account to
synchronize (only) his calendar, so that she can put some
appointments in it. That part seems to be working fine, but then
again she's only touching his calendar.
To make matters worse, sometimes he likes to be logged into two
computers at once. I believe that .Mac can't handle two instances
fiddling with the same Library directory.
At this point, I would like to know how to extricate his computer
from .Mac synchronization so that I can get his keychain situation
stabilized. In other words, is it possible to "start fresh"
with .Mac on one computer, say his laptop, then slowly add computers
into the mix.
Any .Mac and network home advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
--
- Peter Schwenk
- CITA-3, Systems Administrator
- Mathematical Sciences
- University of Delaware
- (302) 831-0437
- schwenk _at_ udel _dot_ edu
- http://www.math.udel.edu/~schwenk

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