----- Original Message ----- | | [root at server2 home]# mount server1:/home/jason /home/jason | [root at server2 home]# | [root at server2 home]# ls /home/jason/ | Desktop Documents Downloads Music mylogfile.txt Pictures Public | Templates Videos | [root at server2 home]# df -h /home/jason/ | Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on | server1:/home/jason 297M 19M 278M 7% /home/jason | [root at server2 home]# | | so it works manually, just not with the automounter. | | Jason Of course, because a manual mount expects a directory to already exist to mount on. Automounter creates virtual mount points on demand and so if there are existing directories already in place it will fail. Stop autofs. Move the /home out of the way. Start automounter and than do an ls /home. It should "just work" -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-365-6432 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier at sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices Twitter : @sfu_rcg Powering Engagement Through Technology