[Samba] .Xauthority & SMB

[Shannon Johnson]

I asked this question a while ago, but never got any response. Since
then, I've researched the problem some more, so I can give a much more
concise description of what's happening.

 

I'm mounting the home directories of the users upon login (using
pam_mount) from the Windows server. However, none of the users can run X
Windows. It says there's a problem with the .Xauthority file. I read
that the .Xauthority and the .ICEauthority files can't exist on and SMB
share, so I used environment variables and pointed them to /tmp. Now,
when the users try to start X (either through the GUI login, or from
"startx"), it says the connection is refused by the server. Does anyone
have any idea how I can work around this, or how I can fix it and still
have the home directories mounted from the Windows server?

 

 

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Shannon Johnson

Network Support Specialist / Systems Administrator

Dept. of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering

224 Reber Building

University Park, PA 16802

Phone: (814) 865-8267

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