Mounting NFS share on startup

[Jay]

I am mounting the same share for each user

the NFS share is Home (on the server) and the actual mount point is /mnt/server

I then use openLDAP to move all users home directory to /mnt/server and on first logon it creates a directroy on the server for their home files allowing their documents, desktop etc to follow them.

I have put the following into /etc/fstab on the client

serverip:/home /mnt/server nfs,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,intr,timeo=14,bg

the issue is. it doesn't work! What am I doing wrong here?

[directhex]

does that mount line act as expected, i.e. does "mount /mnt/server" mount it?

[Jay]

yes

mount /mnt/server works fine

[directhex]

yes

mount /mnt/server works fine

Is that the line you're using exactly?

"serverip:/home /mnt/server nfs,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,intr,timeo=14,bg" is wrong, it needs to be:

"serverip:/home /mnt/server nfs rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,intr,timeo=14,bg"

using a space is important - without it, the mechanisms which handle mounting network filesystems separately from local filesystems won't know it's a network filesystem

[Jay]

DOH! how did I miss that?

would serverip:/home /mnt/server nfs rw,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,intr,timeo=14,bg

or

serverip:/home /mnt/server nfs rw, rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,intr,timeo=14,bg

[directhex]

filesystem mountpoint filesystem options dumpable fsck-order

the last two should be 0 (or not entered) for nfs

[Jay]

ok, thanks for your help.