I just installed redhat along with mandrake, win98 and freebsd... i am
sharing my /home/user directory with the other installed systems... here's
the problem:

when i try to login as the user at kdm and start kde X just simply
restarts and im back at the kdm screen

anyone know how to fix this?

Umm try this command.

xhost +localhost

i have no idea if it will help or not.

why do yu have no idea if whether it will help or not?

becuase i had a similier problem as you, and i type that command each time it doesnt work and then it works again. I have no idea if it will work for you becuase your problem is slightly different from the one i used to have.

i doubt that'll be of any real use, wild stabs in the dark are seldom useful. Check the log files such as /var/log/XFree86.0.log, and try loading X from runlevel 3.

well, turns out RedHat assigned my main user 500 instead of 501 like mandrake did--i have set up a dual homedirectory (if you will--i have no idea what it would be called) and i couldnt even write to my home dir from the shell so i knew something had to do with permisssioons amnd such...

so i changed the user number from 500 to 501-it wouldnt let me do that, so i had to create a null account. then i was able to give my main user 501 then for whatever reason i could never login with the password even though it was correct... for now i just went ahead and created a different named user with its own home dir... anyone know why this happened?

ahh yeah, that's exactly the issue i had trying to share my email over NFS, in the end i did delete my mandrake account and create it again forcing the UID to 500. if you change the UID you'll then not own a single file in your own user directory, as rights are tied to the UID and not a username, for obvious reasons.

ok...it all makes sense.... itried to do the same with the email files and could never ever get it to work and always wondered why--now i get it...sometimes linux is just too secure

Or try waving a dead chicken over it.

Bert