Re: gconf on multiple machines

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Andreas,

On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 21:38, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> I am setting up gnome1.4 in a lab setting. Students may be logged in on
> several machines simulataneously or may switch machines without a 2
> minute break. Since the home directories are nfs mounted this causes
> problems with gconf. I have edited /etc/orbitrc as suggested. Now two
> sessions on the same machine work fine but logins on a second machine
> still fail. Any ideas?

	Very odd - 2 sessions on the same machine should always have worked
fine - since the communication is done by a (shared) /tmp/orbit-$USER/
Unix Domain socket.

	Note - that to get the orbitrc thing to work you have to:

	a) Setup /etc/orbitrc at both client and server sides

	b) _Ensure_ that no-one is already running a gconfd that 
	   initialized it's ORB _without_ that setting, and thus
	   cannot communicate outside it's own box.

	I hope (and suspect) that you just had a stale gconfd-1/2 lying around
on one machine, that was initialized without it being allowed to talk to
the world.

	HTH,

		Michael.

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