How to share a common partition as home

[Paul Howarth]

Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> I try different distros of Linux on different partitions from time to  
> time. I want to move all my /home folders to a common partition so that  
> across all distros I can share it by mounting on home. When I 
> implemented  it,I faced a problem. users do not get write permission on 
> this  partition  in spite of specific option to that effect in fstab.
> 
> /dev/hdb6            /home                ext3        
> defaults,users,acl,user_xattr        1 2
> 
> I get the same error in all distributions. I cannot launch DM in user  
> account as there is no write permission available.
> 
> Could somebody point out where is the mistake ?

Do your user accounts have the same UIDs in each distribution?

Paul.