{"id":707,"date":"2013-08-01T05:43:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T10:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/?p=707"},"modified":"2014-04-23T10:25:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T15:25:20","slug":"mobile-client-sync-causes-lock-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Client Sync Causes Lock Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Using the Mobile Client home folder synchronization for Apple Server\/Client synchronizes files that it probably should <strong>not<\/strong> synchronize, possibly causing login problems. At attempted login:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Machine wakes up successfully.<\/li>\n<li>Mouse can move, but you <strong>cannot<\/strong> bring the login dialog to the front as mouse clicking does not do anything<\/li>\n<li>Typing does <strong>not<\/strong> do anything<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cannot<\/strong> cancel or switch user.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I did not have this problem before I started home folder syncing on my OS X server.\u00a0My suspicion for the culprit was\u00a0<strong>synchronize while logging-out<\/strong>\u00a0option as you do, while using another machine linked to the same account creates some confusion.<\/p>\n<p>To get to the bottom of this, I tested two ways around this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Do not use two machines while syncing in progress. Do not sync if logged in to another machine.\u00a0[did<strong> not<\/strong> resolve the issue]<\/li>\n<li>Stop syncing on login and logout, and only sync during log-in.\u00a0<strong>[resolved the issue]<\/strong> Those are the &#8220;at login&#8221; and &#8220;at logout&#8221; options shown in the screen shot.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SyncSettings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-708\" alt=\"SyncSettings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SyncSettings-300x262.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SyncSettings-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/SyncSettings.jpg 856w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a92013 EthnoSync.com. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7338556709983307\"; \/* ArticleBanner *\/ google_ad_slot = \"0441375625\"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the Mobile Client home folder synchronization for Apple Server\/Client synchronizes files that it probably should not synchronize, possibly causing login problems. At attempted login: Machine wakes up successfully. Mouse can move, but you cannot bring the login dialog to the front as mouse clicking does not do anything Typing does not do anything Cannot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,91,90],"tags":[177,119,180],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-apple","category-mavericks","category-server","tag-apple","tag-mobile-client","tag-server","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ethnosync.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}