[K12OSN] IceWM, Gnome & Nautilus FRUSTRATIONS

[richard ingalls]

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 Trask <dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us> wrote:
> More info please....are you using Samba/LDAP or
> simply mount the /home
> directory somewhere like a mapped drive?  I use
> IceWM and use Samba/LDAP
> meaning we export /home to the K12LTSP server and
> mount it in the same
> place (ie: /home actually lives on the Samba/LDAP
> server).  Are there any
> icons at all or are they all pieces of paper.  If
> there are icons, but
> they're the pieces of paper....that's usually
> fixable by deleting the
> contents of the /tmp directory and then running the
> "reset-all-desktops"
> script.  OR if you're mounting home from another FC3
> server and it is not
> a server loaded from the K12LTSP disks...then you
> may need to actually
> populate the /home directories with the contents of
> /etc/skel from the
> K12LTSP server....you can run the reset-all-desktops
> script 
> (/opt/ltsp/templates/k12linux/)  I think....and that
> will do it...or do
> what I do...use K12LTSP as the FC3 server (just
> don't activate the LTSP
> bits) and then you'll have the same stuff in
> /etc/skel as well as the same
> scripts.
> 
> Like I said...I use IceWM with Nautilus with export
> and mounted home dirs
> and it runs fine.
> 
> David N. Trask
> Technology Teacher/Coordinator
> Vassalboro Community School
> dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
> (207)923-3100
> 
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