From kde Thu Sep 14 17:40:25 2006 From: "Vladimir Rusinov" Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:40:25 +0000 To: kde Subject: Re: [kde] smbfs $HOME and kde Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=115825564124341 On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:56:11 +0300 Боян Табаков wrote: > > Our network is based on windows domain and has about 500 users. Every > user > > have //domain/home$/usename share and some other common shares. > > > > Now I'm making a linux clone to setup it in our labs. > > There ware many problems with authentification and shares mounting, but > > most of all were solved. > > > > I'm monting //domain/home$/username as user's $HOME on logon. So, users > > have their $HOMEs in smbfs. > > And they can't start kde and almost all kde apps (fluxbox and ion3 are > > working poperly, but users are in shock with them). > > > > Reason: > > kdeinit can't make any simlinks and fails to start. > > I have added to /etc/porfile some lines like > > mkdir -p ~/.kde > > mkdir -p ~/.kde/kdecache-linux > > > > But dcopserver fails to start. As I understood it tryes to lock some > > .ICEauthority file, but it's impossible on smbfs. > > > > I need some advice. > > Hi, > Are you trying to mount a Windows share, or you are building the whole > system > on Linux machines? If all OSes are Unix based, you should use NFS, rather > than Samba. NFS is designed to be mounted remotely and I think it should > work > just fine for your case. No, our DC runs under Windows 2003 and we have no plans to migrate to linux yet. :( -- E-mail: vladimir@location.org.ru JID: b_dot@jabber.ru ICQ UIN: 323123279 ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.