Yosemite/Mavericks Server and mobile accounts

[dwoodfill]

Hello,

I have a 30 person company that is setup with mobile accounts talking back to OS X Server. It seems randomly I have a user that all of a sudden has a computer so slow it's unusable.
-Very slow login, sometimes 5 minutes, sometimes 30 minutes
-Once you're in everything you do beachballs
-The Mobile Sync has a ! in the menu bar and if I try to click to open the menu bar drop down the dropdown beachballs.
-Logout basically is not existent. If I logout it will start the process and get to a black screen with the visible cursor and will proceed no further.

I've now had 4 users experience these problems. 2 of them I've had to perform a full wipe/reinstall to get anywhere... and I'm currently working on the 2 others. Any ideas? Or should I just go to Backblaze or something similar for backup.

[davidacland]

I would switch off mobile home syncing and just set the users home to be in /Users.

Logins will be stable using OD/LDAP, its the home folder setup that will be causing the problems.

Using a backup program to protect the user data on the local machines is a good way to go.

[dwoodfill]

Ya, we just have to go through red tape to authorize something else, It'd be nice if it just worked as it's supposed to.