Hello to all. I'm in the middle of trying to set up a bunch of student lab workstations to be dual-boot machines: Windows 2000 / RedHat 7.1. These are IBM Intellistation E Pro workstations.
I'm currently configuring our "template" machine, from which we will take a disk image with RapiDeploy and copy it to all the lab machines (30 of them). I've tested the imaging, and dual booting does work on the target machines. So much for preamble. Now I'm at the point where I'm tweaking the "template" machine to fit into our current network setup. I've banged my head against the wall with the NIS configuration, and finally got that to work (problem was RedHat's firewall software), so the RedHat machine will now find our yp hosts, passwd, group, etc. I even got the automounted file systems to work. The host that runs the NIS server and also houses the home directories is a Sun Enterprise 3500 running Solaris 8. The problem I'm having is with the GUI login. I can log in as root okay, but if I try to log in as a regular user (i.e. one defined in the NIS/yp passwd file), it's a no-go. The screen goes black for a second, and then the login screen reappears. I can do this as many times as I want; the login screen always resets. I can log into the machine via telnet or ssh, and everything works fine. My home directory is on one of the automounted file systems, but there doesn't appear to be a problem with that. I get full access to the directory, i.e. I can both read and write files. My gut feeling is that the home directories being automounted is having some kind of impact on the GUI login, even though it doesn't appear to affect command-line login. However, my gut feeling does not seem to be telling what to try next. Does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks for reading. --Eric Rountree -------------------------------------------------- Eric Rountree, Systems Specialist School of Computing, Queen's University Room 551, Goodwin Hall, 25 Union St. Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6 (613)533-6784 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------- Now, you listen here! He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy! Now, go away! _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
