[ILUG] NFS advice

[Kevin Philp]

I am looking for some advice from the learned. 

Each desktop in our office mounts /home from the server so anyone can login 
wherever they like. They also share files in a dummy account also on /home. 
However the performance is not great and I regularly get complaints of slow 
computers - and they are slow. The desktops are a decent spec (2GHz with 
512mb RAM). Starting Openoffice can be slow - which seems odd as its stored 
locally and loading a presentation is even worse. I think something is wrong 
with my routing or my nfs setup.

The /home is exported with 

/home   192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(sync,no_root_squash,rw)

and is mounted at the other end with the options:

sync, no_root_squash,rw

Should I be using tcp? also is sync killing performance?

Any suggestions welcome

Kevin.