Quoting Dan likuidkewl@gmail.com:
But when I try to login as that user I got the dreaded: "User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default sessionand languages from being saved. File should be owned by user and have 644 Permissions. User's $HOME directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users."
So I looked into the permissions and this is what I see serverside: [root@LTSP ~]# ls -al /home total 64 drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 15 23:13 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Sep 22 17:45 .. drwx------ 27 ainsley ainsley 4096 Sep 23 19:13 ainsley drwx------ 31 Dan Dan 4096 Sep 24 21:42 Dan drwx------ 27 darren darren 4096 Sep 23 18:17 darren drwx------ 33 devin devin 4096 Sep 24 07:28 devin drwx------ 22 kristi kristi 4096 Sep 24 21:35 kristi drwx------ 21 landen landen 4096 Sep 24 21:14 landen
BUT when I look at the /mnt/home listing I see a completely different set of permissions:
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 15 23:13 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Sep 22 17:45 .. drwx------ 27 devin devin 4096 Sep 23 19:13 ainsley drwx------ 31 Dan Dan 4096 Sep 24 21:42 Dan drwx------ 27 kristi kristi 4096 Sep 23 18:17 darren drwx------ 33 503 503 4096 Sep 24 07:28 devin drwx------ 22 504 504 4096 Sep 24 21:35 kristi drwx------ 21 505 505 4096 Sep 24 21:14 landen
the ones in bold are definately wrong, and I have no idea how they are being set. unless it is because they are not accounts on the test machine yet but then neither is the "landen" account and that one has the correct permissions sort of.... the user numbers are correct for the user names by the way.
NFS uses the user ID of the user (UID) for permissions. You will need to have the correct permissions on each system, and the correct username associated with the same UID on each machine.
If you are running multiple systems, I would suggest looking into NIS. This will allow you to create the accounts in NIS and have them use the same details on each machine.