On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, James A. Peltier wrote: > 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" autofs works just fine with an existing directory. It worked fine in EL4/5/6/7. Indeed the default config has /misc managed by automount, and that directory exists. No? I use krb5 NFS with EL7 just fine on /home with autofs. jh