[NTLUG:Discuss] Can't log into desktop, can SSH into box

[Robert Citek]

Nice troubleshooting.  Thanks for letting us know. - Robert

On Dec 1, 2007 5:13 PM, Minh Duong <minh_duong at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 12/01/2007 04:27 PM, Minh Duong wrote:
> > > Thanks, it was a WinBind issue.  I replied to the
> > last
> > > person and forgot to reply to the entire list.  I
> > > turned off WinBind authentication and it works
> > now.
> > > Thanks all for your help.
> >
> > Inquiring minds want to know how you figured that
> > out.
> >
> > Regards,
> > - Robert
> >
>
>
> I went to text login to remove any X dependencies by
> using CTR-ALT-F1.  I tried to login using a user.  It
> failed.  So I logged in as root in text.
>
> tail /var/log/messages
>
> got me the end of the system messages.  The error said
> something like:
>
> Nov 30 12:00:01 server pam_winbind[4083]: write to
> socket failed!
>
> I really don't know what Winbind is for so I went to
> setup and turned it off.
>
>
>
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