Order Used in Applying Mount Options to a Connection

Mount options are applied to a connection in the order of global, server, mount point. This means that when NFS makes a connection and decides which mount options to use, it looks at the global NFS Client Properties first, the server properties second, and the mount point properties last. To illustrate this, consider one particular mount option, the Mapping Character feature. Suppose you set this feature as follows for the global NFS Client properties, for server woody, and the connection to /files on woody.

If Mapping Character were the only property set at the server level and mount point level, each connection would use the Solstice NFS Client Properties for the values of all other mount options besides Mapping Character.