[FreeNX-kNX] Re: got: "cannot create directory `/home/.nx'"

[Rupert Kolb]

Adriano Frare schrieb:
> Execute nxsetup as root

I tried it as root!
Even root is not allowed to create files inside an automounter 
created/controlled directory! (At least at my SuSE 9.x/8.x, IRIX 6.x, 
Solaris)

Rupert

> 
> Adriano Frare
> (BRAZIL)
> 
> Rupert Kolb wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> running the "nxsetup" I got an
>>
>> "Setting up user nx ...mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/.nx': 
>> Permission denied"
>>
>> error.
>> Reason is, that the home directories are mounted via automounter.
>>
>> I didn`t find any info about reasonable values for NX_HOME_DIR or 
>> NX_ETC_DIR.
>>
>> I have:
>>   SuSE 9.1
>> and (from the suse site)
>>   FreeNX-0.2.4-2
>>   NX-1.4.0-12
>>   knx-0.1-10
>>
>> installed the rpms and run "nxsetup".
>> Any idea to do it better?
>>
>> Thanks for any newbie guidance.