authenticating to alternate server

[Jim Kronebusch]

> Since I could not get firefox to work on the terminals I installed opera.
> I cannot get opera to work but here is what I discovered, when I click on
> opera I get the following message: "it appers another instance of opera is
> using the same configuration directory because its lock file is active:
> /home/rswift/.opera/lock" I also can not save a file to openoffice. It
> says I do not have the right permissions. I did chown my home directory
> and it made no differnece to either. I have no problems when I am on a
> windows machine. Is there some config file on the terminal  that I might
> have wrong that is screwing up permissions or how they are seen on the
> samba/ldap server?

I wonder if this is a problem with the NFS mount and not LDAP?

First run "id testuser" and "getent passwd testuser" from the client and let us know
what the results are (where testuser is an actual user that can log into the clients).

Also, is the LDAP server running on the same server as the clients, or is there a
separate authentication server?  And are the /home directories stored on the LTSP
server, or is there a separate nfs server exporting /home?  If a separate server is
exporting /home then send the /etc/fstab contents of the LTSP server and possibly the
/etc/exports contents of the nfs server.

In my experience if id and getent work, the ldap authentication and server are fine. 
After that it is group membership, permissions, file system mounts, etc that are the
problem.

Jim

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