X would apper to log in because it cannot find any files in the home directory, and so it just restarts the X server. If you mount the home directory in the fstab file with something like: 10.0.0.1:/home /home nfs defaults 0 0 Then the directory will be automatically mounted when you turn on the computer. (that is the line i use in my fstab file anywhy. I also mount /var/cache/redcarpet, for all the computers on my home network. then you do not have to download the packages for every computer when updating them with redcarpet).
Regards, Karl Bowden > Hi all, > > Using Redhat 7.1 > > I have checked out what all the posibilies could be but I just can't seem to > crack it. > > NIS works fine. I can ypwhich from the clients and they pick up the server > no probs. > > When I try to login at the GUI login dialog it accepts the login, seems to > be logging in (X flickers) then drops back out to the login dialog. > > I put +:::::: in /etc/passwd and +::: in /etc/group and have changed > /etc/nsswitch to default to NIS on the client. > > Do I have to have auto.home and auto.master in the NIS maps? Do I have to > automount /home on the client? > > If anyone has some ideas and example config files it would be greatly > appreciated. > > regards, > > Nick Reese -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
