Louis Lagendijk <louis at fazant.net> writes: > 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? Kerberos is not involved. > Your description sounds as if the user cannot really get to the > mount.... Yes, but the user can. Just enter cd in a shell, and he´s in his home directory where he should end up to begin with. -- "Didn't work" is an error.