Hello,
One of the customers I suppport has a interesting problem I've never seen. I've searched the forums and found nothing relevant, so I'm hoping somebody can point me in the right direction.
He is running Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 on a Dell PC. He also uses Sun workstations. He has a home directory on the network which he gets when logging on to a Sun through the automounter. When he logs into his Linux machine he is supposed to get the local home directory in /export/home1.
The strange thing is - if he telnets into the linux box, or if I go on there as root and su - to his userid, he gets the local home directory as he should. But if he logs on at the console with Gnome he gets the automounted network home directory. He can cd into his local homedir just fine, but his home directory is set to the network one.
Does anybody have an idea how this could be happening? My first thought is something with login scripts or automounter/nfs setup. But those should affect telnet sessions as well as console logins if they were wrong. I checked through the .gconf directory but didn't find anything; however I'm not very familiar with gnome so I could have easily missed something there.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
Ralph