Users $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 6/7/07, Cliff Hall <12barz at gmail.com> wrote:
> A newbie, I decided to share my Home directory on my home network to
> facilitate file transfers.  When I restarted my computer the next day I got
> this message:
>
> Users $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored.  This prevents the default session
> and language from being saved.  File should be owned by user and have 644
> permissions.  User's $HOME directory must be owned by user and not writable
> by other users.
>
> Holy cow!  I quickly right-clicked on my home directory and turned off
> sharing, but the message reappears whenever I reboot the system.  Have I
> angered the mighty Ubuntu?  What did I do wrong and how can I correct it?
>

To fix the immediate problem:

sudo chown username:username ~/.dmrc
sudo chmod 644 ~/.dmrc

(where username is your account).

I'll let someone else help you on the filesharing, since I'm not at my
ubuntu desktop today.

-Eamonn