m.roth@5-cent.us writes:
hw wrote:
Hi,
I have the home directory of a user on an nfs server and mount it on a client. When the user logs in, they end up in the root directory rather than in their actual home directory and need to cd into it.
The user can read and write to their home directory, so it kinda works fine --- but only kinda. When the user starts emacs, some of the settings in ~/.emacs are not applied, but the saved desktop is being loaded.
Both machines are running Centos 7.4. What could be wrong with the nfs mount?
- Do you have /etc/auto.master set up? How about /etc/auto.home (or do
you set that in auto.master)?
No, the directory is mounted via an entry in /etc/fstab.
Is /etc/exports on the NFS server exporting correctly (/home server:/exported/homes/&)?
The directory itself is exported, like
/path/to/mountpoint/user client(rw)
- Is autofs enabled and running on the client?
No, do have to do it that way?
This is only one user and one client, so I didn´t see any need to bother with automatic mounting. It´s automatic anyway because of the fstab entry.