gnome from rh7.3 with afs

["Thomas C. Meggs" <tomm physics unc edu>]

Hi,

We are looking at running Gnome 1.4 as provided by RH7.3 as the standard 
Windowing environment on our Linux installs. File systems are 
centralized using AFS, and gconf has been giving us errors. It gets 
rather confused with multiple logins, and errors have been persistent 
after both machines are logged out of, so I was wondering if there is 
also a problem with file locks.

I have been reading the documentation at 
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/, and it mentions solutions for file 
locking with NFS, which may or may not be a problem. I am however a 
little confused about how the CORBA network connections work. It is my 
understanding that gconf is a per-user daemon, so does gconf manage 
letting the other gconf instance(s) know what IP it is on? Is all I need 
to do from the administrator point of view to add "ORBIIOPIPv4=1" to 
/etc/orbitrc?

If anyone has any info on this setup let me know! Thanks.

Regards,
Tom

--
Thomas C. Meggs
Physics and Astronomy
UNC Chapel Hill
http://www.panic.unc.edu/

"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
	    -- Mark Twain

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