Re: using GNOME on multiple NFS-home machines

[ilmari@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker)]

Ari Pollak <ari@debian.org> writes:

> [ Please CC me on all replies. ]
>
> Hi, I currently have the GNOME 2.2 woody backport set up on a group of
> 12 Debian machines. All users' home directories are NFS mounted. My
> problem is that GNOME or GNOME utilities (gnome-terminal, gedit, etc.)
> cannot be run properly on computer B after one of the GNOME utilities
> is run on computer A, as the utility complains on computer B about
> "loading or saving configuration information." and lots of CORBA
> errors (after having a lot of network traffic on that computer for a
> few seconds). Is there any way to alleviate this very annoying locking
> behavior? It's rather annoying for our users, especially me in
> particular.

You need to make ORBit talk over TCP/IP, make sure you have the
following in /etc/orbitrc:

ORBIIOPUSock=1
ORBIIOPIPv4=1

If you are using IPv6 you migtht also want 

ORBIIOPIPv6=1

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ilmari