[Discuss] Wanting to understand Dolphin file manager automounting

[Dan Ritter]

Rich Pieri wrote: 
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:22:41 -0500
> Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:
> > If all clients should see foo/quz and foo/rat, client B should see
> > foo/bar and client C should see foo/baz, I think you will have to
> > rearrange this so that you export foo/quz and foo/rat to all and
> > foo/bar and foo/baz separately.
> 
> Yes, but this isn't the question. Let's say the exports are

Yes, but it was the answer.

 
> server:/foo
> server:/foo/bar
> server:/foo/baz
> 
> and the client has server:/foo mounted as /foo. When I select the /foo
> mount in Dolphin on the client, server:/foo/bar and server:/foo/baz are
> mounted on the client as /foo/bar and /foo/baz respectively despite not
> being listed in /etc/fstab. What causes this behavior? And what do I do
> to stop it?


NFS v4 causes this behavior. You have to rearrange what you
export to stop it.

Stop exporting foo. Export foo/bar and foo/baz. If you have
other things under foo that need to be shared, put them under
qux and export that.

-dsr-