On Thursday 13 Oct 2011 08:10:17 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 11:28 -0700, John Andersen wrote:
On 10/11/2011 11:59 PM, lynn wrote:
Hi. Thanks. As you say, 'somelinuxuser' is better than root but my client boxes do not have any users on them.
Huh? That makes no sense at all. How can you have no users defined on a client box and at the same time complain that things are mounted root:root?
With no users defined, what possible other choice would there be.
I suspect there are local users. I know that if an openSUSE box has joined an ActiveDirectory, you can have it so that when a person logs in with their ActiveDirectory credentials, an account and $HOME are automatically created if they do not already exist. Their $HOME is in /home/$WORKGROUP. It really works great.
I know the original poster said they were authenticated with LDAP. Perhaps in that case this does not happen (automatically making a local account and $HOME). But unless all these folk run as root, there must be a local account. If the LDAP method did not set it up automatically, then someone had to do it by hand in advance.
Indeed, I think we are not getting the complete picture.
Lynn, what does a user get if they type:
whoami
and
echo $HOME
in a terminal window?
There are no local users on the client. On the client, authenticated via ldap: whoami lynn echo $HOME /home/lynn I created lynn as an ldap user on the server using yast just taking the default values so I don't think this is an ldap problem. I think it's a samba/cifs problem as my current lan works fine using nfs/nis. Thanks for your patience. L x -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org