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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers lost /home/directory for users Post 302280003 by blizzgamer on Sunday 25th of January 2009 01:06:21 PM
Old 01-25-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by nixnoob
It's probably not in the "default" location (/home/<username>). Depending on the purpose of the server, the administrators preferences, or the purpose for the user to log in, the /home/<username> directory could be anywhere. There might be a good reason it's not where you are expecting it to be.

I'm guessing you're not the original server admin or am I reading this wrong?
Also just a guess, you're using ssh to log in right?

When you log in and do pwd, what do you get?

You can cat /etc/passwd |grep <username> to see where the person's home directory is located. Or just cat /etc/passwd to see the entire passwd file.

You could also do a sudo find / -name <username> and the system will show you the exact directory where that user's home is.

I wouldn't "map" the home directories since that can cause some issues.
I think somehow the server path got dismounted.

the serverA has: /Home/<directory>
workstationB connecting to serverA does not see the directory.

The user can logon to other workstations without any problems.
I'm thinking that the server is not connected to the server.

Thanks for your help.
 

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