On my Kubuntu 12.04 machine anything USB gets mounted under /media/.  
Not /media/<username>. Does that mean anything to anyone?

On 12/23/2013 05:11 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 16:23:06 -0800
> Chris Schafer <[email protected]> dijo:
>
>> Also I would re-enter the configuration line in the exports file.
>> Perhaps with the same entry as the one that worked.
>>
>> Is jjj mounted by hand?  Or is it mounted by the media mount service
>> that ubuntu is running?
>>
>> Maybe the interaction is with the service that mounts the removable
>> media and the nfs export?
>>
>> I am not sure I have ever exported a non permeant mount.  Perhaps
>> moving the export up higher would fix it?  Though I don't see why that
>> should be a problem.
> When I installed Xubuntu 13.10 on the brand new laptop (only a couple
> weeks ago) I made a separate partition for ~/. I did the same thing
> when I installed Xubuntu 12.04 on the desktop several months ago. When
> either computer is rebooted the boot process automatically mounts ~/
> because it has to, else it wouldn't be able to find all the
> configuration files.
>
> However, Movies is an external USB drive on the laptop that I must mount
> manually after booting the laptop. I could do it from the command line,
> but it's far easier to use the Xfce panel widget "Places." I just click
> on Places, it displays Movies in gray, I select Movies and a popup
> appears offering to just mount it or mount and open it (I.e., open a
> Thunar browser window. I always select just mount, after which it goes
> from gray to black in the GUI and I can browse it. I don't know what
> process Xubuntu uses to mount it; ultimately I suppose there is a mount
> command hidden under the GUI. And since it is a USB drive Ubuntu mounts
> it in /media/<username>/ by default.
>
> I suppose I could add a line to fstab on the laptop so it would mount
> Movies automatically, but then there would be at least an error message
> if I ever boot the laptop away from home without the drive physically
> connected to the laptop.
>
> So when I try to mount Movies on the desktop via nfs I am actually
> trying to mount a mount. Could that be the source of the problem?
>
> As for the syntax in /etc/exports, I can't see anything wrong with
> it. When just a bit ago I added ~/ to the exports file I did so by
> copying the existing Movies line, then backspacing over the mount point
> until it read just /home/jjj. And I failed to copy the line completely
> the first time - left off a final parenthesis - and got an error
> message when I went to exportfs -a. I don't know how rigorously
> exportfs checks the syntax of the share lines, but it must do at least
> some checking.
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