KDE and Homedirs on network share.

Hello,
I use pam_winbind for authetification a pam_mount (cifs) for
mounting 
homedirs stored on w2k3 file server.
Homedir /home/user1 is mounted from \serverusersuser1
Everything seems to work fine until I try to start KDE.
When I run startx I receive this error:

Could not read network conection list
/home/username/.DCOPserver_u116-0xl__0
please check if dcopserver is running

Dcopserver is running
Then the xserver shutdown and I see this:

xset: bad font path element (#77), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
Error: Can not create link from
"/home/testov/.kde/tmp-u116-0xl" to 
"/tmp/kde-testov"
Error: Can not create link from
"/home/testov/.kde/tmp-u116-0xl" to 
"/tmp/kde-testov4gt9h3"
Error: Can not create link from
"/home/testov/.kde/cache-u116-0xl" to 
"/var/tmp/kdecache-testov"
Error: Can not create link from
"/home/testov/.kde/cache-u116-0xl" to 
"/var/tmp/kdecache-testovHDYsy3"
startkde: Starting up...
kdeinit: Aborting. bind() failed: : Operation not permitted
Could not bind to socket
'/home/testov/.kde/socket-u116-0xl/kdeinit__0'
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
kdeinit: Aborting. bind() failed: : Operation not permitted
Could not bind to socket
'/home/testov/.kde/socket-u116-0xl/kdeinit__0'
Could not register with DCOPServer. Aborting.
ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!
startkde: Shutting down...
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.

Can someone give me a hint where could be the problem a what
should I do 
to allow my network users to run KDE ?
I think that all problems mentioned above arise because cifs
do not 
support symlinks.
Is it posible to make KDE not to create symlinks in
homedirs?
Or is it possible to have only one configuration for all
users on computer?

Thanks for help
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Am Dienstag, 12. Dezember 2006 17:53 schrieb Jiří
ÄŒervenka:
> I think that all problems mentioned above arise because
cifs do not
> support symlinks.

exactly.

> Is it posible to make KDE not to create symlinks in
homedirs?

I suppose, not (not sure, though).
I would recommend you to use an nfs server instead of
windoze 

werner
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On Tuesday 12 December 2006 12:13, Werner Joss wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 12. Dezember 2006 17:53 schrieb Jiří
ÄŒervenka:
> > I think that all problems mentioned above arise
because cifs do not
> > support symlinks.
>
> exactly.
>
> > Is it posible to make KDE not to create symlinks
in homedirs?
>
> I suppose, not (not sure, though).
> I would recommend you to use an nfs server instead of
windoze 
>
> werner

While I understand Werner's response, I really don't think
that telling him to 
change the infrastructure of his network (likely forced on
him by management) 
will be of use here. Jiří, I recommend looking at the
documentation on the 
KDE Wiki ( http://wiki.kde.or
g/tiki-index.php ) regarding environment 
variables that may help you ( $KDE_HOME_READONLY may help ).

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Am Dienstag, 12. Dezember 2006 18:18 schrieb Gary L. Greene,
Jr.:
> While I understand Werner's response, I really don't
think that telling him
> to change the infrastructure of his network (likely
forced on him by
> management) will be of use here. 

well, Gary,
the advice was not meant to be mandatory (note the  ) -
however, I still 
think it is not a bad one, if he _could_ make the change.

werner
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On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 05:53:03PM +0100, Jiří Červenka
wrote:
> 
> I think that all problems mentioned above arise because
cifs do
> not support symlinks.

Wrong, cifs does support symlinks. Windows 2003 Server
doesn't
support Unix Symlinks. You'd have to use a Samba 3 Server to
use
home dirs via cifs.

Peter
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Well,
I can use windows as NFS server (using SFU) but I do not
want to. I 
think it is too unsecure for my purposes.
But if you point me to some secure solution using NFS I
would be very 
grateful and I´ll try it, because I want to allow my users
to use KDE..
I was really happy when I managed to use pam_winbind and
pam_mount with 
cifs for authetization and mounting homedirs. It really
works very nice. 
Is there really no chance to make KDE work with cifs?

Thanks for reply.

Werner Joss napsal(a):
> Am Dienstag, 12. Dezember 2006 18:18 schrieb Gary L.
Greene, Jr.:
>   
>> While I understand Werner's response, I really
don't think that telling him
>> to change the infrastructure of his network (likely
forced on him by
>> management) will be of use here. 
>>     
>
> well, Gary,
> the advice was not meant to be mandatory (note the  ) -
however, I still 
> think it is not a bad one, if he _could_ make the
change.
>
> werner
>   
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On Tuesday 12 December 2006 19:17, Jiøí Èervenka wrote:
> Well,
> I can use windows as NFS server (using SFU) but I do
not want to. I
> think it is too unsecure for my purposes.

Unsecure in the meaning of encryption?

Hmm, I think there is a variant or version of NFS that can
do encryption, 
however it might be easier to just use a VPN tunnel from the
Unix machines to 
the server.

> But if you point me to some secure solution using NFS I
would be very
> grateful and I´ll try it, because I want to allow my
users to use KDE..
> I was really happy when I managed to use pam_winbind
and pam_mount with
> cifs for authetization and mounting homedirs. It really
works very nice.
> Is there really no chance to make KDE work with cifs?

According to Peter it seems to be rather a limitation of the
CIFS server than 
CIFS itself.

Cheers,
Kevin

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KDE user support, developer mentoring
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