I'm getting an error when I login on a machine with the user account stored on the ldap server (RH Directory Server)

"Your home directory is listed as '/home/user' but it does not appear to exist. Do you want to log in with the /(root) directory as your home directory?"

If i select yes, another error quickly shows up: "Your session only lasted 10 seconds....."

I believe that even though the checking of the user and pass is from the LDAP server, it still looks at local files for individual files. Isn't that supposed to be with the server too? if so, how/where can I set it to also refer to the server for user home directories (most likely the /home of the user is going to have to be mounted via network to the local pc right?)

the automounter is probably dead. start the automounter in the machine you login...

It all depends on what you have the "home directory attribute" in LDAP set to. Most likely if it was a NIS to LDAP conversion then most users should have "/home/username" set as their home directory attribute. Linux by default also uses the /home/username setup on stand alone systems. So I imagine that you don't have the "homes" share mounted on this box. Since that share is not mounted on /home and your username does not exsist locallaly on the machine you receive the message about "Your home directory......" I do not know about the other message except that in the attempt to give you access to root's home directory violates the permissions you have and it acts accordingly. What you need to do is mount the "homes share" on that box so that when you log in it can find your home directory. Make sure to edit /etc/fstab if its a NFS mount so that if the box ever has to be rebooted the share is mounted automatically.

thanks, I added a network mount to the server with the home directory and its now working.