[K12OSN] IceWM, Gnome & Nautilus FRUSTRATIONS

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 08:21, richard ingalls wrote:
> One machine: "wLAB" serves as a classroom server AND
> it exports /home out to the other classroom servers
> (because it has a SCSI drive).  The other classroom
> servers "rLAB" and "mLAB" used to work just fine
> mounting /home from "wLAB" when it was a Red Hat 8
> box.  BUT after the fresh install of FC3, users can
> log in, but they get NOTHING... only a blank desktop. 
> None of the apps work ... nothing.
> 
> No LDAP. Just exporting /home and mounting via NFS. 
> This used to work!  What happened with FC3?

What happened to your users?  The uid numbers must match
between the server exporting /home and the one(s) mounting
it.  You can make that happen by copying /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow,
/etc/group, and /etc/gshadow from the server with their homes
to the others, or by setting up NIS or LDAP network authentication.
If you are using local password files on each box and they don't
exactly match you'll get the symptoms you are seeing.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com