unusal error messages ...

I am having a bit of a problem with a computer system I am using here.
 It's one master computer with three slaves.  There are two network
shares that are mapped accross all nodes, /home/someuser/ and
/usr/local.  I have the following packages installed on redhat 9.

openssh-askpass-gnome-3.5p1-6
openssh-clients-3.5p1-6
openssh-3.5p1-6
openssh-server-3.5p1-6
openssh-askpass-3.5p1-6

Anyways when ever I ssh into any of the nodes with a
normal user I get the error

get_socket_ipaddr: getnameinfo 8 failed
userauth_hostbased: cannot get local ipaddr/name

then a password challenge


I enter in the password and I get
then I get the error

Could not chdir to home directory /home/someuers: No such file or
directory /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth:  error in locking authority file
/home/someuser/.Xauthority

But when I try the root user I get no password challenge and only the
first error

get_socket_ipaddr: getnameinfo 8 failed
userauth_hostbased: cannot get local ipaddr/name

Both of them log in however.  Basically the errors are causing some
problems with many of my automated scripts

I am using Host based Authentication

Any ideas or comments?  I've been reading about ssh all day but other
then that all I know how to do is to connect to it and get a basic
daemon running.  Thanks


Trevor