Ubuntu :: Home Folder Disappear When Connected To Network
May 28, 2010
I recently upgraded to ubuntu10.04 LTS via update manager. Previous version was 10.04 beta. After upgrading I am facing very strange problem.
1) If I start my laptop with network connection then all the folder under /home get disappear. When I do ls -l /home it says no folder found. As all the folder under home is disappearing it is giving so many errors when I login and as a result of this I am not able to start the gnome UI.
I tried to mkdir under home and it says cannot create directory.
I tried with root login but same error.
2) But it if I start my laptop without any network connection then I am able to see all the folders under /home and able to login successfully without any error.
I tried to mkdir under home and it was successfully.
3) I also tried this option, first start the laptop without any network connection and login successfully ( Able to see all folder under /home) but as soon as I plug the network cable and once it is connected all folder under /home disappear and system starts failing.
How to recover that user as I am having that user since ubuntu8.04 and lots of data and customization is there. My previous 10.04 beta version was working perfectly.
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Jun 16, 2010
I just ran a scan of my home folder with avast for linux and it detected multiple instances of 'WMA:Wimad [Drp] . Im pretty sure this is a window based virus so opensuse 11.2 should be actually infected right?
On a small side note is there any point in running a antivirus program on opensuse-do linux viruses exist in the wild? I recently read this Think Linux is free from malware? Think again; it's been hacked. - Computerworld Blogs and this Linux infection proves Windows malware monopoly is over; Gentoo ships backdoor? [updated] | ZDNet
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Apr 25, 2011
This is the command I tried using:Code:mount -t cifs //NAS1/reports /home/user/public_html/reports -o rw,umask=0338,uid=587,gid=584,username=admin,password=passwordIt looks like the user can't access the files on the NAS drive. Is there any way to do this?
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Jul 15, 2011
I wrote a script that is run by cron every 5 minutes, but for some weird reason it causes my home directory to disappear for any currently logged-in sessions. If I SSH in after that, my home directory will be present but once the cron job runs it will disappear again. This is the script:
Code:
if [[ `ps aux | grep '[m]otion.pid'` = "" && ! -e /tmp/ignore-motion ]]; then
echo "security cameras offline" | mail -s "" xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.com
fi
And there are a lot of these errors in /var/log/syslog:
Code:
Jul 14 07:51:01 burbank sendmail[16241]: p6EEp1I5016241: from=ian, size=397, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201107141451.p6EEp1I5016241@burbank>, relay=ian@localhost
Jul 14 07:51:01 burbank sendmail[16251]: My unqualified host name (burbank) unknown; sleeping for retry
Jul 14 07:51:01 burbank sendmail[16241]: p6EEp1I5016241: to=ian, ctladdr=ian (1000/1000), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30397, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
Jul 14 07:52:01 burbank sendmail[16251]: unable to qualify my own domain name (burbank) -- using short name
Jul 14 07:52:01 burbank sendmail[16251]: p6EEq1Pq016251: from=ian, size=397, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<201107141452.p6EEq1Pq016251@burbank>, relay=ian@localhost
Jul 14 07:52:01 burbank sendmail[16251]: p6EEq1Pq016251: to=ian, ctladdr=ian (1000/1000), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30397, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1]
I understand that sendmail is having trouble because of my hostname, but why would it cause my home directory to disappear?
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Mar 3, 2010
I'm trying to setup a Ubuntu workstation in a corporate environment, right now just as a proof of concept but hopefully soon I will do the real thing. The problem is trying to establish a Linux equivalent of a roaming profile. The user logs into the Ubuntu Machine using their Windows Active Directory Credentials. (A big victory) Then I would like the client to mount their /home folder off of a Windows 2008 Small Business Server. So far I can make Ubuntu mount everyone's /home folders but I would like to narrow it down to only mount the specific user who has logged in and with proper permissions.
Mount the proper /home folder from the server with that users permissions so they are the owner, have full access etc. Only Mount the current users folder. Or any logged on etc. (I just don't want to mount every folder for every user that exists in Active Directory) Do it automagically.
I login as "dirtandgas est" (dirtandgas is our test domain) and here is the line from the FSTAB that's used to mount the directory.
Code:
//server/redirectedfolders /home/DIRTANDGAS cifs credentials=/root/.smbcredentials,iocharset=utf8,file_mode0777,dir_mode0777,rw,uid=892863608 0 0
Now I know if I changed that to the following, it would only mount the one directory, but I don't want to have to maintain the FSTAB on each computer for each user. (the point of using active directory)
[Code]....
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