Malahal Naineni wrote: NFS3 doesn't have delegations and this file placement should not be an issue in NFSv4 either if it is working correctly! Xauthority doesn't belong in $HOME, it belongs on the local disk. That has nothing to do with NFS v3/v4. It has to do with limiting distribution and exposure of sensitive information. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html