Re: syncronizing gconf settings on a network

[Joshua N Pritikin <vishnu pobox com>]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:52:35AM -0700, Andreas J Guelzow wrote:
> Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> >How do i diagnose & solve this problem?
> 
> I assume you are using the nfs-kernel-server if you are using linux on 
> your nfs server

Yes.

> (otherwise I would expect you to have more problems). 
> In /etc/hosts.allow on your desktop machines, do you have an ALL:... 
> clause giving permission to the other desktop machines for access?

No, but there is nothing in hosts.deny except "ALL: PARANOID" so
it shouldn't matter.

> With 
> gnome 1.4 on debian woody that was necessary since libwrap was used and 
> so the client needed to be allowed to access the gconfd server that was 
> possibly still running on another machine. I haven't check whetehr that 
> is also necessary with gnome2.2 on sid.
> 
> The interesting question is: When this happens on your desktop machine, 
> is gconfd (any version) running on that machine?

Yes, gconfd-2.  However, i am seeing a working gnome session now and
gconfd-2 is running on the machine.  So it seems like the font problem
is not correlated with whether gconfd-2 is running or not.

Any more ideas?

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