Relevant line from server's /etc/exports:
/home 128.119.158.0/24(rw,sync)
Relevant line from client's /etc/fstab:
128.119.163.32:/home /home nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0
I did not consider using the automounter, since I assumed a simple
mount via fstab would do the trick. I will look into this.
Oliver
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:08:59 -0700, Brian D. McGrew
<brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok ... so if it occurs with a brand new user with nothing special in
> the login, (unlike my login environment which is going 14 years old
> now) then lets have a look at your /etc/fstab on the client and the
> /etc/exports file from the server.
>
> Also, if I may ask, why aren't you using the automounter (amd) instead
> of hard mounting the in the fstab?
>
> -brian
>
> Brian D. McGrew { brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ||
> pacemakertaker@xxxxxxxxx }
> --
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>
>
> On Aug 26, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Oliver Aaltonen wrote:
>
> > Brian,
> >
> > I should mention this happens with all of the users. I've even created
> > some "fresh" accounts, using RHEL3's defaults, and the same problems
> > occur.
> >
> > Here are the permissions under one of the test accounts:
> > drwx------ 5 guest guest 4096 Aug 26 16:20 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 25 14:13 ..
> > -rw------- 1 guest guest 60 Aug 26 14:32 .bash_history
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 24 Sep 18 2003 .bash_logout
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 191 Sep 18 2003 .bash_profile
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 124 Sep 18 2003 .bashrc
> > drwx------ 3 guest guest 4096 Aug 25 18:00 .gconfd
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 guest guest 4096 Aug 25 18:00 .gnome2
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 120 Aug 20 2003 .gtkrc
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 guest guest 11 Aug 26 14:31 guest_test.txt
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 guest guest 4096 Aug 24 14:01 .kde
> > -rw------- 1 guest guest 607 Aug 26 14:31 .viminfo
> > -rw------- 1 guest guest 0 Aug 26 16:20 .Xauthority
> > -rw------- 1 guest guest 0 Aug 26 16:20
> > .xsession-errors
> >
> > Oliver
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:50:41 -0700, Brian D. McGrew
> > <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> I would have a look in the users home directory and make sure that you
> >> have correct permissions on all the dot files (.gnome, .gtkrc, etc)
> >> and
> >> that the correct ownership is set. I saw this problem once on Solaris
> >> with Sun's gnome recently.
> >>
> >> -brian
> >>
> >> Brian D. McGrew { brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ||
> >> pacemakertaker@xxxxxxxxx }
> >> --
> >>> YOU! Off my planet!
> >>
> >>
> >> On Aug 26, 2004, at 9:48 AM, Oliver Aaltonen wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am experiencing a problem logging onto the GNOME desktop with the
> >>> following setup:
> >>>
> >>> Server (RHEL3 AS) is exporting /home via NFS and running an LDAP
> >>> server for authentication. Client (RHEL3 WS) is mounting /home via an
> >>> entry in /etc/fstab.
> >>>
> >>> The mount works fine, and client is set up for LDAP authentication
> >>> correctly. I can log in through the console or SSH into the client
> >>> machine and access the user's home directory and work perfectly
> >>> normally.
> >>>
> >>> The only problem I have is when I try to log onto the client machine
> >>> using GDM to run X locally. If I log in as one of the users on the
> >>> server, with their home directory in the mounted share, the user is
> >>> authenticated and the screen turns blank with a cursor and sits
> >>> there,
> >>> not bringing up a GNOME desktop. I can log in through GDM into a
> >>> "failsafe" session, but not GNOME. If I log in as root on the client
> >>> machine, everything works fine, and the GNOME desktop comes up
> >>> correctly.
> >>>
> >>> There are no obvious errors in the logs that I can find.
> >>>
> >>> Any thoughts? Thanks in advance,
> >>>
> >>> Oliver
> >>>
> >>>
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