Re: gnome from rh7.3 with afs

[Andreas J Guelzow <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

Thomas C. Meggs wrote:

> 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.


I have jsut gone through the same traouble. What you might be missing is 
that if you are r using tcpwrappers (ie have active hosts.allow/deny 
files) you need to give orbit access to the right machines. 
Unfortunately nobody seems to know the right daemon name for orbit so I 
am using ALL : ALL which of course disables hosts.allow completely but 
makes gconf work.

therefore yo need to add/edit /etc/orbitrc and /etc/hosts.allow on all 
your clients. (gconf will live for up to 2 minutes after logout of the 
last machine).



Andreas




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