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kde and samba mounted home dirs

frank06

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Wednesday, November 1st 2006, 1:13am

kde and samba mounted home dirs

We have a windoze 2k3 server at work and some linux workstations which run kde. We're mounting user's filestores to their home directories via smb using pam_mount as they log on. However it is not possible for users to start a kde session because kde must access and use a DCOPserver file in their home directories. I have read that this might be caused by the fact that smbfs does not implement a full unix filesystem and that cifs might be better. I have not yet managed to get cifs to work properly.
My question is, is it possible to reconfigure kde so that these DCOP files are stored somewhere else? (maybe /tmp?) I'm not very familiar with DCOP (or ICE for that matter) so maybe what I am suggesting doesn't make any sense. However, any advice would be greatly appreciated as this problem is driving me mad!

Thanks!

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Thursday, March 29th 2007, 9:55am

RE: kde and samba mounted home dirs

Well, I'm having the same problems with cifs... KDE-Startup just locks up.
I think it must be because cifs does not support symbolic links. (They are created inside ~/.kde/ and point towards /tmp...)

May be there is simple way, to have the .kde-directory on /tmp and link back to the home-directory from there...

To motivate the KDE-folks for an answer: Gnome works fine in this case :-P
But I would be happier using KDE for my students...

Greetings

Ivo

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Thursday, March 29th 2007, 10:54am

dunno if it is possible to use socket files on cisfs or smfs, if so: just replace the symbolic links in ~/.kde with the real thing.

if cisfs/smbfs does not support socket files, you can also decide to put the .kde directory on the local machine and point the environment variabele $KDEHOME to that directory.

see user guide of kde for more details on environment variabeles
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