On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 20:39 +0100, John Austin wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 08:06 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 13:07 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Monday 14 July 2008 12:47:25 Tom Horsley wrote: > > > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:21:28 +0200 > > > > > > > > David Jansen <jansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Has anyone else seen this? > > > > > > > > I have noticed some kind of problem with logging in > > > > via GDM when I use a user with an NFS home, but never > > > > investigated exactly what the problem was because it > > > > is usually only by accident that I try it. > > > > > > > > I have no problem just getting a ssh shell for an NFS > > > > user, but trying to do the full blown GUI session > > > > login, something always seems to go wrong, and all or part > > > > of the expected interface never comes up. > > > > > > > > My solution is to avoid NFS like the plague - it always > > > > seems to screw up if you try to write any data across > > > > it. It can almost do reads reliably (except when it can't). > > > > > > I've never tried using an nfs mount as my home directory, but I do have an nfs > > > mount to my remote /home in fstab. All important stuff is on there, so I > > > read and write files regularly. I've had no problems whatsoever with this. > > > > For years I ran a lab of 30-50 workstations all mounting /home from a > > couple of NFS servers. This was on several generations of NFS in the > > original Sun versions, and though we did consider alternatives such as > > AFS or even Coda from time to time, none of them ever looked like > > realistic alternatives in our environment. IIRC the problems tended to > > be much more with NIS (Yellow Pages) than NFS. > > > > poc > > > I have been using NFS for many years for /home at least > as long ago as Redhat 9 > Currently using > autofs, NIS, NFS for /home on F9 x86-64 and F8 i386 and x86-64 > Often logged in on several different machines using the same account ! > No problems > I just don't believe that NFS is the problem !! > BUT > I'm using kdm and not gdm > and NetworkManager is not involved !! > > > John > I back-track somewhat on the above !!!! All my clients are F8/9 but the server is F5 !!!! nfs-utils-1.0.8-4.fc5 John -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
