How to share a common partition as home

[Parameshwara Bhat]

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 ?

Thanking in advance,

Paramehswara Bhat