Ubuntu 18.04 GUI File Manager Weirdness

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 3 Jul 2019 15:11:10 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Hey there,
> 
> Robert Heller wrote:
> 
> >What is happening is that users cannot open folders on their
> >desktop.  Either left clicking on the folder icon or right-click and
> >Open.  Nothing happens. They can open up their files if they
> >explicitly launch the GUI File Manager from the launcher (file
> >cabinate icon).
> 
> To mount shares manually (which is what it sounds like you want to
> do), it recently became necessary to specify "users" in the NFS line
> in your /etc/fstab file.
> 
> For example, you would change this:
> 
> 192.168.1.200:/foo /bar nfs rw,hard,intr,noauto,noexec 0 0
> 
> To this:
> 
> 192.168.1.200:/foo /bar nfs users,rw,hard,intr,noauto,noexec 0 0
> 
> Then you'd export your share again and restart the network:
> 
> sudo exportfs -ar
> sudo service nfs-kernel-server restart
> 
> I've got an updated NFS guide online if you're interested.

No, the whole /home file system is mounted at boot time and all of that is
properly set up. Nothing is automounted or mounted manually by users (well
things like USB thumb drives get mounted by the Gnome automounter). *I* am an
old hand at NFS, automount, etc. I however deeply suspect that "modern"
desktop applications do not well support NFS mounted file systems and
sometimes misbehave when dealing with NFS mounted file systems (firefox,
Chrome/Chromium, and now nautilus). 

> 

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