On 28 Feb, Bill wrote:
>  
>  >Recently I corrupted my fstab file in Mandrake 9.0, and had to recreate it.
>  
>  Since then I cant log into my /home/bill directory from kdm or gdm.
>  
>  I get the message "No write access to $HOME directory (/).
>  KDE is unable to start."

I think that's reporting that it thinks that your HOME directory = /,
not /home/bill.

>  My installation is on hda5 and my /bil account is on hda7 with a symlink 
>  from hda5's /home.
>  
>  I can access the directories through a file manager.
>  
>  /home and /home/bill show privileges as rwx r-x r-x.

They're not directories?

>  If I create a new account it is created in hda5 /home, not hda7.
>  
>  I tried copying the hda7/bill directory to hda5/home/bill but I still got 
>  the above error.

Can you cat /etc/fstab, and also do an ls -ld /home /home/bill and post
that output?  Also show us the output of the mount command, in case for
some reason /dev/hda7 is being mounted read-only.

luke

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