Thanks for the reply. Info as requested hereunder:-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cat /etc/fstab
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/auto/floppy auto user,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0
#
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0 # Knoppix partition
#
/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 # Mdk 9.0 boot partition
#
/dev/hda6 none swap defaults 0 0 # Swap for both Mdk 9.0 and Knoppix
#
/dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 ext3 auto,users,exec 0 0 #Mdk 9.0 Home partition
#
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 vfat noauto,users,exec 0 0 # XP partition
#
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5 ntfs noauto,users,exec 0 0 # XP data
#
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1 ntfs noauto,users,exec 0 0 #XP data
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -ld /home drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 26 16:04 /home/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ls -ld /home/bill ls: /home/bill: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
(Appears that problem is with Symlink???)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mount /dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0622) /dev/hda7 on /mnt/hda7 type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev) /dev/hdb1 on /mnt/hdb1 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev) [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
Thanks
Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message: 9 Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 23:12:13 +1100 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Problem accessing User directories in /home To: Sydney Linux Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 28 Feb, Bill wrote:
>
> >Recently I corrupted my fstab file in Mandrake 9.0, and had to recreate it.
>
> Since then I cant log into my /home/bill directory from kdm or gdm.
>
> I get the message "No write access to $HOME directory (/).
> KDE is unable to start."
I think that's reporting that it thinks that your HOME directory = /, not /home/bill.
> My installation is on hda5 and my /bil account is on hda7 with a symlink > from hda5's /home. > > I can access the directories through a file manager. > > /home and /home/bill show privileges as rwx r-x r-x.
They're not directories?
> If I create a new account it is created in hda5 /home, not hda7. > > I tried copying the hda7/bill directory to hda5/home/bill but I still got > the above error.
Can you cat /etc/fstab, and also do an ls -ld /home /home/bill and post that output? Also show us the output of the mount command, in case for some reason /dev/hda7 is being mounted read-only.
luke
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