Mac Pro Sleep and Login

Well I think that I've finally solved the sleep issues on my Pro. I ended up just doing a reinstall of the OS and for the last month or so, it's been going to sleep just fine.

A somewhat bigger problem then erupted; waking up. Most times when I take the Pro out of sleep, I get the login icons and I login and all is good. But about once every week or so, I get the icons, but when I click on one to login the login hangs with the spinning BBOD. And I've not been able to trick it by restarting or trying a local user ID or putting it back to sleep and then reawakening it. I looked over my log files in the console and I kept seeing messages either about some network connectivity or something to do with kerberos. Since the Mac is on an Active Directory domain at my office I surmised that might have something to do with it. After much searching I decided to call Apple. Got some wonderful tech support and the tech guy suggested some things to try. I ended up doing a repair of the disk and permissions and some other things, but none of them seemed to work. Unfortunately since it appears that the problem had to do with connectivity to AD, the Apple guy was not able to help, unless I wanted to open a pay ticket with the Enterprise group. I decided that it was not worth the effort.

But at least I had some reason that I could work with. Someone advised me that I might want to look at some third-party AD binders instead of the built-in one. I looked at Centrify, ADmitmac, and Likewise. All of them had free trials and I played with each of them. I think they are all fine programs, but two of them, Centrify and ADmitMac, screwed with my user folder too much. If I was setting up a new Mac and had never been in it with an AD user, all of them might have worked OK. The two in question installed OK and bound to AD OK, but created a new path for the user folders to sit in and when I logged in with my AD credentials, I had a whole new set of folders and all my things were gone... well not really gone gone, but they were living in the old folder structure. I assume that I would have been able to move these, but since I was just testing different products, I hated to make that severe of a commitment. So I uninstalled each and moved on. Likewise was the only product that I installed that left my user folder structure alone and when I logged in I had the desktop, etc. that I expected. I've stuck with that and since I did that I have not had one instance of hanging on bringing the Pro out of sleep.

Hopefully this topic is closed.