NIS users not able to login into CDE

[SIJU JOSE]

Hi

I am getting the following error when I am trying to
login as a NIS user into CDE .

"Unable to initialize or connect to the desktop.
messaging systen. check your HOME/.dt.errorlog
for more information.
Press OK and your session will Exit"

My workstation's Operation system: HP-UX10.20.

root as well as local users are able to login properly.

Thanx in advance.

Siju Jose

[Karthik S S]

Hi,

Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf file. Also try moving the .dt directory of the NIS user to .dt.old

Regards,
Karthik S S

[Kong Kian Chay]

From your CDE login panel, try "Options" - "Command Line Login". Login from here and see what is the error messg after successful login.

[Wim Rombauts]

The problem is probably somwhere in hostname resolution.
- Is the name of your workstaion configured correctly in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf and are the same name and IP-address entered in /etc/hosts of your machine.

Is the NIS server correctly looked-up on your workstation, and is your workstation correctly looked up from your NIS-server (try nslookup .

And then you also need a CDE Temporary Directory on an NFS share on your NIS server. It has to bet set in your inetd.conf files on both server and client by adding option " -auth_dir " for dtspc.
The temporary directories on server and client have to point to the same physical filesstem and need to have the same path.