[Bug 205111] Re: likewise-open service does not start automatically

[Neil Mclean]

-  note all my above comments refer to this situation
a.  boot up ubuntu 8.04
b.  log in as a local user
c.  at the desktop can see likewise-winbindd did start up at system start if I pull up a terminal and "sudo /etc/init.d/likewise-open status"
d.  then use the likewise-open-gui to join my PC to a domain

Weird things happen on my desktop (see above).  syslog (daemon log) is flooded with warnings (see above).
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I did some further testing:
a.  boot up ubuntu 8.04
b.  log in as local user
c.  at the desktop can see likewise-winbindd did start up at system start if I pull up a terminal and "sudo /etc/init.d/likewise-open status"
d.  then open a terminal window and use the likewise-open-cli  to join my PC to a domain

Same weird things happen on my desktop
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Now maybe so far my problem is a user problem - not knowing how to use
likewise-open properly.  Because in all the above scenarios I had never
been able to log in to the domain from the ubuntu gui (gdm) screen.
Always failed.   All I knew was that likewise-winbindd was running and
thought that was all was needed.

I did some further reading and testing:
a.  boot up ubuntu 8.04
b.  at the gdm GUI login screen I CTRL-ALT-F1 to a cli session.  
c.  in that cli session I initiated a likewise-open-cli domain join.  Enter user password -  SUCCESS
d.  then CTRL-ALT-F7 back to the gdm login screen and log in with  user at domain.local and get a successful domain user log on.

Here I notice:
-  I have a new desktop as if a first time user.  My "home" directory is  /home/DOMAIN/user  (not /home/user)
-  Everything works nicely.  I see all the domain servers and PC's in Places>Network
-  No problem with the logfile getting flooded with warning messages.
-  When I log out no hangs or problems.

Wooohoo!!!  Sooooo Sweet!  Very slick.  Very nice.

So I am wondering now if the problems I have in the first scenario
(logged in as local user - using likewise-open CLI or GUI commands to
then join domain) - is because I am doing the wrong thing?

Should I be able to do this?  Or am I using likewise-open incorrectly if
I do that?

In summary:
Likewise-open only works properly for me when (as well as having likewise-winbindd daemon running) I first drop to a command prompt and join to the domain BEFORE I log in at the gdm GUI....

(and perhaps that is how its supposed to work??)

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likewise-open service does not start automatically
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