LDAP logon problems on Novell SUSE Enterprise 10

firak · 11-23-2007, 07:41 AM

What I have is one new Fileserver, 32 new Clientsystems, 180 different Users, in a homogeny Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 network.
For the time being this network does not work properly.

The Fileserver
HP ProLiant ML310 G4 Intel® Xeon® 3050 dual core prosessor, with 4GB RAM, 2x500GB SATA HotSwap disks in SATA 1, with SLES 10 SP1 (2.6.16.53-0.16)

The Klientsystem (32 PCs)
1,9 GHz Intel® Celeron® prosesssor with 1 GB RAM with SLED 10, SP1.

One new Fileserver, 32 new Klientsystems, 180 different Users, in a homogeny SuSE Linux Enterprise network.
I use LDAP Authentication, NFS and DHCP on SLED 10. None of the machines are connected to Internet.
All users are LDAP users connected to LDAP Groups, home-directory is /home/username, loginshell is /bin/bash and Standardgroup is "users".

Right now only one Klientsystem is connected to the Fileserver via a switch.

Problem:
Can not log on as a LDAP user on the Klientsystem.
Logging on as a LDAP User gives this error-message:
"Your session lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this may mean that you have problems with the installation or that you are out of diskspace. Try to log on with one of the failsafe sessions to see if this solves the problem."

The /var/log/messages say:
".. Could not load source. "xml:readwrite:/home/username/.gconf". Cannot make the directory "/home/username/.gconf". Filesystem with read permissions only..... .."

/home/username is 777 (755 does not help),
/home is 777 (755 does not help).

(I have made the .gconf directory, with the usernames permissions, set up 777 or 755, this does not help.)

I do not understand where to go next. Please give me some advises.
I thank you in advance

Firak

harry edwards · 11-24-2007, 04:14 PM

The following line in you output:

'Filesystem with read permissions only'

Indicates that you filesystem (not files) is mounted in readonly mode? Is this true, if so it's why you are seeing the error.

firak · 11-26-2007, 08:49 AM

Hi, thanks for your tip.

The site below gave me the answer.
http://www.linuxconfig.org/HowTo_configure_NFS

I had some problems with LDAP logon.
The problem was in Configuring an NFS Server with YaST, second window.
The default settings for " Add Host" was "* fsid=0,ro,sync,root_squash" which I used.

The "ro" part means "read only". Then I mounted the Filesystem in read only mode.
I changed from "ro" to "rw" (from read only to read write).

Then the filesystem is transparent and fine..

Again, tank you for your tip...

Firak