Mobile Users Problem

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Keegers

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Greetings all,

I am in the process of testing things for my company and I am looking into setting users up to have mobile accounts.
The user has Parallels installed (build 5608) and has Parallels image in its own folder off the root of the drive. The permissions on the folder is set to 777 for everyone.
A link to the Parallels psv file has been added to the login items of the user.

The part we are testing is if the Open Directory Master is down and the user needs to log into the Open Directory Replica. When I attempt to login, Parallels appears to be starting, it is in the dock and in the top menu bar, but the full menu isnt there (it only says "Parallels Desktop" and no other options) and the program doesn't load.

If I start the Open Directory Master back up Parallels starts.

Obviously it's good that it works when the OD Master is in place, but if its not we would really like this to still work for our outside laptop users.

Any thought on what could be causing this?
~Keegers
 
All options under Applications are Never. The only things set in OD for this user are Mobility (to create the mobile user), Dock, and System Preferences. It is set to only access Accounts and Keyboard & Mouse.
 
None that I can see.
On this test machine I have set the permissions to the Parallels folder inside the applications folder to be 777. I am going to try testing this tomorrow morning.

Any thoughts on this?
 
This seems to have worked. Parallels starts now.

Since I set the whole Applications Parallels folder (as opposed to the one with the images in it) to have everyone read & write, is there anythying that we should worry about or is there something that does not need write permissions on it that we can set back to read only?
 
I think that may be part of the problem. Since the user is not pulling the correct priveledges to the folder, they fall into the everyone category. Once there they cannot write to the files, so, for example, the lock files cannot be written.
 
I also noticed that your priveledges are differnt from what Apple has:
drwxrwxr-x 13 root wheel 442 Jul 16 07:24 Parallels

drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 Jun 5 07:03 Photo Booth.app
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 Sep 17 08:11 Preview.app
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 Jun 11 13:57 QuickTime Broadcaster.app
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 Sep 15 05:48 QuickTime Player.app
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 Sep 17 08:11 Remote Desktop.app
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 Jul 15 09:47 Safari.app

Parallels Desktop.app:
total 0
drwxrwxr-x 6 root wheel 204 Jul 16 07:23 Contents

Parallels Explorer.app:
total 0
drwxrwxr-x 6 root wheel 204 Jul 16 07:23 Contents

Parallels Image Tool.app:
total 0
drwxrwxr-x 6 root wheel 204 Jul 16 07:24 Contents

Parallels Transporter.app:
total 0
drwxrwxr-x 6 root wheel 204 Jul 16 07:24 Contents

The user will not be in the wheel group (nor in the admin group), so writing, in theory, is not possible.
 
Can you be more specific?
What group is needed (OK I realize you can't answer that specifically, but can you point me in a good direction?)
 
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