ok, I have moved home out of the way and restarted automounter.. and now I see the /home directory appear when autofs is started, but there is still nothing there.. [root at server2 home]# cd /home [root at server2 home]# ls [root at server2 home]# cd jason -bash: cd: jason: No such file or directory [root at server2 home]# df -h ./ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /etc/auto.home 0 0 0 - /home [root at server2 home]# I still dont see any errors in the logs on either server. btw, my uid on both servers is the same. [root at server2 ~]# id jason uid=1000(jason) gid=1000(jason) groups=1000(jason),10(wheel) [root at server1 log]# id jason uid=1000(jason) gid=1000(jason) groups=1000(jason),10(wheel) Jason On 09/10/2015 07:32 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: > > ----- 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" > -- */Jason Welsh/* *MercuryGate International, Inc.* Sr. System Administrator O: 919-469-7670 C: 919-410-7883 _jason.welsh at mercurygate.com <mailto:jason.welsh at mercurygate.com>_ *SMARTER, STRONGER, FASTER, BETTER* www.mercurygate.com <http://www.mercurygate.com>