m.roth at 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? >> > 1. 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) > 2. 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. -- "Didn't work" is an error.