smbfs $HOME and kde

[Vladimir Rusinov]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:56:11 +0300
 Боян Табаков <blade.alslayer at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Our network is based on windows domain and has about 500 users. Every
> user
> > have //domain/home$/usename share and some other common shares.
> >
> > Now I'm making a linux clone to setup it in our labs.
> > There ware many problems with authentification and shares mounting, but
> > most of all were solved.
> >
> > I'm monting //domain/home$/username as user's $HOME on logon. So, users
> > have their $HOMEs in smbfs.
> > And they can't start kde and almost all kde apps (fluxbox and ion3 are
> > working poperly, but users are in shock with them).
> >
> > Reason:
> > kdeinit can't make any simlinks and fails to start.
> > I have added to /etc/porfile some lines like
> > mkdir -p ~/.kde
> > mkdir -p ~/.kde/kdecache-linux
> >
> > But dcopserver fails to start. As I understood it tryes to lock some
> > .ICEauthority file, but it's impossible on smbfs.
> >
> > I need some advice.
> 
> Hi,
> Are you trying to mount a Windows share, or you are building the whole
> system 
> on Linux machines? If all OSes are Unix based, you should use NFS, rather 
> than Samba. NFS is designed to be mounted remotely and I think it should
> work 
> just fine for your case.

No, our DC runs under Windows 2003 and we have no plans to migrate to linux
yet. :(

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