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

[Christian Fischer]

On Tuesday 19 October 2004 09:37, Rupert Kolb wrote:
> 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?

Yes. Ideas to do it better you can find here:
http://debian.tu-bs.de/knoppix/nx/freenx-0.2.5.tar.gz 
Have a look at the gentoo-nomachine.diff

Cheers
Christian