[K12OSN] IceWM, Gnome & Nautilus FRUSTRATIONS

[David Trask]

PLEASE fill in the one blank you are not answering....how are these users
authenticating.....are you using Samba/LDAP or are you simply creating the
same username and password on duplicate machines...or something like that.
 Then we should be able to help you.  I have a totally FC3 network....I
export my /home dirs, but we also authenticate to one place...the
Samba/LDAP server....which is where all the /home dirs and users
live...there are no users on the K12LTSP server...only apps.

"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
Thursday, April 28, 2005 at 4:26 PM +0000 wrote:
>What USED to work:
>- RedHat8.0 based K12LTSP (3.0.0) server; serving
>/home out to other LTSP servers (all RH8).  No
>problems.
>- upgraded the OTHER classroom machines to FC3 based
>K12LTSP (4.2.0); everything still worked fine
>
>THEN
>-upgraded the /home server to FC3 (4.2.0); did a
>complete FRESH install
>
>NOW students can only log in at the one classroom
>where the /home server is.  If they log in at the
>other classrooms, they get the IceWM bar at the bottom
>of the screen, but NO desktop ICONS and NO file
>manager.  ALSO, they can't even USE any of the buttons
>on the taskbar.  Clicking on one results in NOTHING
>happening.  NO Firefox, no OpenOffice... nada.
>
>This used to work beautifully with RH8.  I bragged
>about how little I had to work on this Linux-based
>classroom network (all 4 classrooms).  NOW, I've spent
>weeks trying to make this "new" supposed upgrade work.
> AAAAAAARGH!
>
>Doesn't ANYONE have an ALL FC3 network serving /home
>out to other FC3 boxes?  Can't someone tell me what is
>happening and HOW to fix it?  I'm beginning to HATE
>Fedora Core 3, and I don't want to.  I think it's eye
>candy appeal is worth it to convince people about the
>validity of Linux.  BUT no amount of eye candy is
>worth this TROUBLE!



David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
(207)923-3100