I have edited fstab file on client and added lines, for booting server home directory

myserver:/home /home nfs4 auto,rw,nodev,sync,_netdev,proto=tcp,retry=10,rs
ize=2048,wsize=2048,hard,intr 0 0

After this when I perform mount /home, i can see user account fro server in client's home directory. But after I reboot the client, there is nothing in the client's home directory?

Can anyone guide me please, what should I do to mount home directory automatically after reboot?

Thanks

Try with IP address
Make sure that /home is not a mountpoint (i.e. if there's a dedicated partition)

OP already has "auto,rw" in fstab. Maybe this:
myserver:/home /home nfs4 auto,rw,user,exec,dev,suid 0 0
along with his other options. Also OP might want to have a look at /etc/exports on "myserver". Maybe not necessary, but if he wants write permissions it has to be in there. Something like this: (again, on "myserver", /etc/exports)
/home <client hostname>(rw,no_root_squash)
That would give him write permissions. If changes are made to that exports file he must run "exportfs -ra". No need to restart "myserver"'s nfs daemon but the client machine would have to have /home remounted. Hope this helps.

Thanks a lot guys for your instant responses.

I tried both solution with IP address, and editing exportfs -ra along with changes in exportfs and fstab file. But issue still persists. let me explain what happens even after applying your solutions

When I place these line "myserver:/home /home nfs4 auto,rw,user,exec,dev,suid 0 0" at the end of fstab file and mount the home directory, it only mounts the user's created on client machine in the /home directory. It does not import the user created on server. But if I place these lines at top of fstab file and mount home, I can see users from server is imported in client's home directory. After that when I reboot the client machine, there is nothing in /home of client, not even the users created on client machine. So, I again do just mount /home and I have all user accounts in /home directory again, the ones created on client machine as well as imported from server.

I want that even after reboot, all accounts stay in /home directory and I don't have to mount it again. Is there anything I am missing prior to this step?

I really appreciate your help in this regard.

Thanks

Hey, after some playing around with /etc/fstab file, I kind of resolved this issue, although I am not sure if it is right one. I placed "myserver:/home /home nfs4 auto,rw,user,exec,dev,suid 0 0" at multiple places in /etc/fstab and figured out that it has some kind of conflict with "/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home /home ext4 defaults 1 2" line which also tries to mount on home. I commented out this line, mounted home and restarted the client machine and after reboot all user accounts were present in /home folder, including created on client machine and imported from server.

However now I see extra 100 GB hard disk visible along with other filesystem and when I enter inside it, I see user accounts created only on client machine here also.

Do you guys have any idea what is going on? Why mounting nfs conflicts with mounting /dev/mapper and are there some consequences to it

Thanking you in anticipation

Unless I need to backup an entire volume by doing snapshot I never use LVM.
I asked before if /home was just a mountpoint since I remember a similar issue time ago with separated home partition.
Extra 100GB are there since you disabled a VolGroup of LVM. It's not safe since you cannot access data already saved there if the VolGroup is not mounted.
Some distro automatically create LVM without asking during installation and even when it asks, well, most of us are from "Next Generation": a generation that usually click on "Next" without read a thing! >.<

Yes, you were right Slackyman. I were instructed to use LVM, but I think we need to reconsider this now. Anyways thank you very much for your help