On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Anne Wilson wrote: > Hi, John. That sounds really useful, particularly on the netbook where I have > to remember to disable the mounts before travelling. The only problem is, I > don't know how to do that. Can you either describe it to me or point me to > suitable reading? Thanks Basically the automounter will just step in and mount things when you try to access files within the directory. http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs.html That probably tells you everything you need, but I'll just note the basics. Basically you can have: /etc/auto.master: /remote /etc/auto.remote /etc/auto.remote: somemount -rw,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,udp nfsserver:/blah/blah someothermount -rw,intr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,udp nfsserver:/foo/foo chkconfig autofs on service autofs start Then you should be able to do: cd /remote/somemount When you do that, autofs will mount the share. There's a lot more you can do, you really do need to read the documentation. Executable automount maps and ldap based maps really give you a lot of flexibility on how you can use it, but you probably need something very simple. jh