Permission denied error creating /home directory for domain user

[bmittathullil]

Hey All,

I am running Ubuntu 20.10 desktop with NoMachine free version 7.0.211. The Ubuntu machine is connected to the domain and I am able to login with domain accounts directly. While connecting with NoMachine I get the error message on screen “Session negotiation failed. Error cannot create home/nmuser@domain”.

The logs on the machine have the below.

2244 2244 2021-02-07 00:06:08 846.791 NXSERVER User 'nmuser@domain.tech' logged in from '192.168.1.XXX' using authentication method NX-password.

2244 2244 2021-02-07 00:06:09 879.932 NXSERVER ERROR! Received error message from node 'localhost:4000', 'NX> 596 Error: Cannot create /home/nmuser@domain.tech/.nx. Error is 'Permission denied'.\n'

Appreciate any pointers to fix this. Thanks in advance.

[og00r]

Could you try to change the path in key UserNXDirectoryPath in node.cfg to some directory where everybody has access? Could be something temporary as /tmp/

Second question is, are you using AD domain? Or is it some kind of LDAP configuration?
How it is configured?
Could you try to provide login in the format:
DOMAIN\username

[bmittathullil]

Thanks @og00r. Changing the NX Directory path fixed the issue.

[Britgirl]

Thanks for letting us know.

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