On Fri, 2017-10-27 at 16:21 +0200, 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? > > Are you using kerberos with NFS4 with security set to krb5? Your description sounds as if the user cannot really get to the mount....