similar to: Workaround found, .Xauthority and SMB, Mounting home directory

I asked this question a while ago, but never got any response. Since then, I've researched the problem some more, so I can give a much more concise description of what's happening. I'm mounting the home directories of the users upon login (using pam_mount) from the Windows server. However, none of the users can run X Windows. It says there's a problem with the .Xauthority file.

hai i have run the halt command from the xshell and the machine got restarted, now when i restart the machine, i am getting this error . I have tried to press the CTRL+ALT+F2 and tried to login with the root user but that one is also not working. can any one help me with this.. this the error message i am getting after i tried to login " your session only lasted less than 10 seconds ...try

I'm running a new install of 4.8-RELEASE on i386. Running "pkg_add -r gnome2", the following errors are reported: (I've defined the BATCH environment variable). Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.8-release/All/gdm2-2.4.1.3.tgz...Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "then") pkg_add: command 'if [ ! -f

Hi, I have a debian server with ldap, samba, smbldap-tools installed and ubuntu clients. I set pam_mount to mount the user's home directories from the ldap-samba server (amahoro) on the clients at login time and this runs. On the server the user's home directories are stored in "/users" like "/users/username". Logging by gdm appears the message: "Could not

I'm running Samba v2.0.5a on a RedHat v6.0 system. This server provides SMB shares to Win98, OS/2 and Linux clients. Everything is running fine with the Win98 and OS/2 clients, but I have a few questions regarding Samba and Linux clients. 1. Is there a way for Linux systems to receive SMB messages? Something analogous to Windows' "WinPopup" or OS/2's "Network

Hello list, In the past we have instructed users to perform 'xhost +' from their centos desktop, then set the DISPLAY variable on a remote computer to forward their display back to the desktop. This does not seem to work on centos 6 - but it did work in centos 5. It works from a vnc session on the desktop machine, but does not work from the local desktop. We would typically use a display

Hi! Several people noticed problems with openssh Version 1.2.2 through 1.2.3 related to X11 forwarding under Linux. For example: Magnus Holmberg <pucko at lysator.liu.se> wrote: > I have just installed openssh-1.2.2p1-1 > on two of my machines and I have one problem. > > I have > X11Forwarding yes > in my /etc/ssh/sshd_config > > but when I try to ssh to that

Hello, I have been having issues with x11 forwarding using my linux-mandrake based servers. I checked my XAUTHORITY variable and it was set to ~/.Xauthority ... After reading the mail archives, I found the /tmp/ssh* directory created during my ssh session, and did this: export XAUTHORITY="/tmp/ssh-hzuA1805/cookies" xeyes ...and the X11 forwarding worked! I'm using the

Hello everyone, I just installed the CentOS 6.8 updates from the CR repository, and then I rebooted the server. I run some software to make weather images on a website, and I have run into a problem. When I do it, the software, as it tries to plot the image, says: Xwindow: unable to connect to display It just stopped working when I did the updates. Has anyone else seen this, or have an idea on

Hello I can''t seem to be able to get X working on domain U My setup domain0 -ubuntu breezy domainU -ubuntu breezy I tried 3 techniques 1. ssh -X domainU steps: on domain U $ export DISPLAY=:0 $ xhost + xhost: unable to open display ":0" on domain0 ssh -X domainU result: ssh conection established no X forwarding starts. after login tried

hi, eventually newbie: i want to show remote X-apps on my desktop. now, i know from google that xhost and xauth is not the way to so that very secure. now, i have a ssh_config with X forwarding enabled and a server with forwarding enabled, too. now when i connect to server i read that ssh creates automaticaly a Xauthory file. So i know that this is the xauth way with supercookies etc. but i

Hi I''m been trying to install an xvm instance on a remote system, but I keep running into variations on ''unable to open display'' I''ve tried to use ssh -X but I''ve not been able to get it to forward when su''d to root. 1) ssh -X -l xadmin virtbox running cload etc works fine. 2a i. su - ii. cp .Xauthority ~xadmin/.Xauthority iii. setenv

Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coe.ufrj.br> wrote: > I think it would be useful if samba had a utmp log interface. > I know that it's possible to see who is logged with smbstatus, but > sometimes a simple who(1) or w(1) is more efficient and ubiquitous. If you were to search for 'wtmp' in the 1997 archives (via the Samba web pages), you would find one interesting

I've encountered a strange problem in CentOS 4.1. I've never had this problem before, and I've been using X Windows since 1990, but I can't get remote X connections to work: $ hostname host00 $ echo $DISPLAY :0.0 $ xhost + access control disabled, clients can connect from any host $ rsh host01 $ xdpyinfo -d host00:0.0 xdpyinfo: unable to open display

On some of my machines, when I run "su -" in a terminal to get a root shell, an XAUTHORITY file is automatically generated to give display access to GUI programs spawned by that shell, i.e., # set | grep XAUTH XAUTHORITY=/root/.xauthayZmdH That file contains a copy of the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE from my original X session. On other machines with the same installed OS (CentOS

Hello, I am desperate. Today I realized that my OS 108 doesn''t want to boot. I have no idea what I screwed up. I upgraded on 108 last week without any problems. Here is where I''m stuck: Reading ZFS config: done. Mounting ZFS filesystems: (1/17) cannot mount ''/export'': directory is not empty (17/17) $ svcs -x svc:/system/filesystem/local:default (local file

I have a problem with 2.0.5 that did not happen in 2.0.4b or previous releases. I am seeing thousands of these messages in log.smb: [1999/07/20 23:44:24, 0] lib/util_str.c:string_sub(1095) ERROR: string overflow by 7 in string_sub(%M, 967) and the smbd process seems to be stuck in a tight loop. It's caused by the variable substitutions in these lines from smb.conf: root preexec = [ %U

Hello all, $XAUTHORITY location has moved from under /tmp to ~/.Xauthority in 2.9p2. The commit message was: --- remove xauth-cookie-in-tmp handling. use default $XAUTHORITY, since we do already trust $HOME/.ssh you can use .ssh/sshrc and .ssh/environment if you want to customize the location of the xauth cookies --- The latter is true, but can only be enabled in per-user basis as far as I see.

Sessreg is a simple program for managing utmp/wtmp entries for X sessions. It was originally written for use with xdm, but may also be used with other display managers such as gdm or kdm. Changes since 1.1.1: Alan Coopersmith (4): Update README for gitlab migration Update configure.ac bug URL for gitlab migration Add comment about why safe_strncpy isn't replaced with

sessreg is used by display managers such as xdm and gdm to record X sessions in utmp, wtmp, and lastlog files. This release attempts to clean up some inconsistencies around the handling of the various files. Long long ago, Unix systems had a utmp file to record who was currently logged in, and a wtmp file to record login history. Long ago, extended versions of the files & APIs for them were