How to auto mount NFS shares on MacOS

Question

I want to auto mount some NFS shares from my Synology NAS when I boot my Mac. Until recently, I had this working:

/etc/auto_master:

+auto_master        # Use directory service
/net                -hosts      -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid
/home               auto_home   -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
/Network/Servers    -fstab
/-                  -static
/-                  auto_nfs    -nobrowse,nosuid


/etc/auto_nfs:

/mnt/idefix/digikam -fstype=nfs,noowners,nolockd,resvport,hard,bg,intr,rw,tcp,nfc,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 nfs://idefix:/volume1/digikam

Now, after upgrading to MacOS 10.15 (Catalina) this is no longer working. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Not a direct answer, but in my case I needed to update the mountpoint specified in /etc/auto_nfs from /Users/foo/mountpoint to /System/Volumes/Data/Users/foo/mountpoint. Catalina disk structure has changed directory, perhaps related to your issue.

Answer 2

Yet another breaking change in a minor update to Catalina (10.15.2). The configuration that worked for me is the following:

/etc/auto_master:

#
# Automounter master map
#
+auto_master        # Use directory service
#/net           -hosts      -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid
/home           auto_home   -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
/Network/Servers    -fstab
/-          -static
/Users/Share        auto_nfs


/etc/auto_nfs:

mntp    -noowners,nolockd,noresvport,hard,bg,intr,rw,tcp,nfc server:/share

This will automount the share server:/share on /Users/Share/mntp.