Hi all.

Have a Centos 6.4 server hosting an NFS share. The client is a laptop running OpenSuSE 12.3 with two users accounts on it (my wife and I). If I boot the laptop into my account (KDE desktop), the NFS share is mounted and ready for me. If I log out and log into my wife's account (Gnome desktop), the share is not mounted. If I then do "mount-a" as root while logged into her account, the share mounts and can be accessed without issue.

How do I make that share automount when logging onto another user account?

EDIT: ok, just tried booting straight into my wife's account (Gnome) and the share is mounted. I logged off and then onto my account and the share is still there. So it only does not work when booting to my account, then logging off and onto my wife's account. Only then do I need "mount -a"

tl;dr
Boot into my KDE account: NFS share is mounted
Log off and then log into my wife's Gnome account: NFS share not mounted
Boot into my wife's Gnome account: NFS share mounted
Log off and then log into my account: NFS share mounted

you never stated how you have the nfs mounted? id look into autofs and set that up for both accounts that way you dont have to worry about fstab handling the mounts and permissions going all wonky.

Thanks for the reply!

Sorry about not mentioning my mount method. It's through fstab. I'll give autofs a look. Thanks for your help!

That was the ticket! Got autofs all setup on my client machine and it mounts like a charm when I need it!

Thanks again!

glad to hear it. yeah i really like autofs for this type of work. its great and the new replacement with systemd is looking even better. in short it combines the use of fstab with autofs so you can drop the extra service (autofs) and just use the standard fstab for automagically mounting/umounting of shares.

sadly there just is not a lot of documentation out there for it yet. soon i hope as RHEL 7 should go live by the end of the year. im sure a lot more documentation will come out once RHEL 7 is out of beta.