****** The problem ****** (Finally) I have my red hat 7.2 (LTSP) system authenticating users from an NT4.0 domain using winbind... BUT after it authenticates... the screen goes blank, where it would normally load the window manager and instead of having my desktop come up, the login dialogue comes back. ******What I THINK is happening...(?)****** PLEASE HELP! I'm trying to run ICEwm and/or Gnome over GDM. I think I have my home directories screwed up (that is, the NT users don't have one yet, so the window manager can't load???)... Of course, my last problem had nothing to do with what I thought it did so who knows. Appreciate any pointers, since I'm still at the point where I really have no idea whats going on. :-) I guess I'm stumbling over home directory related lines in smb.conf and pam_mount.conf, I don't understand what samba is telling linux is the users home dir, and where that literally OR symbolically, is located on the machine; e.g. is /home/%d/%u, really //localmachine/home/domain/user/ or something else, like a share off the samba server? and how does that get applied to the users?) **** Related but different **** I ultimately want to use pam_mount to mount volumes off an existing NT4.0 fileserver (I hope): Does anyone know how that would affect these unix-style permissions I'm learning about? Specifically, each user needs an executable text config file for the window manager. thanks all! (attached my /etc/samba/smb.conf and the login and system-auth files from /etc/pam.d) ________________________________________ David M. Leuser, II Assistant Network Administrator New Hampton School (603) 744-3182 x121 dleuser@newhampton.org ________________________________________ "Picture the root account as a magic hat that gives you lots of power, with which you can, by waving your hands, create or destroy entire cities. Because it is easy to wave your hands in a destructive manner, it is not a good idea to wear the magic hat when it is not needed, despite the wonderful feeling. " -- Gnome User's Guide -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: login Type: application/octet-stream Size: 592 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20020810/636fa96b/login.obj -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smb.conf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 10843 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20020810/636fa96b/smb.obj -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: system-auth Type: application/octet-stream Size: 808 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20020810/636fa96b/system-auth.obj