[tlug] NFS versus boot order

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Dave M G writes:

 > Maybe this can't be helped. But is there a way to automatically mount 
 > the drives on the client when it needs to use the network drives?

You want autofs/automount:

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Automount.html

There's also an older, userspace solution called the automounter
daemon, but autofs is by far the preferred solution.  (AIUI, I don't
use it.)