<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> I am trying to automount directories from those hosted on a Solaris8 box. My maps are dist via NIS from the sun NIS servers. So I've got the NIS working OK, but when I config the autofs and attempt to cd to a automount dir, I get a message in /var/log/messages that says: <blockquote>Jun 24 16:57:45 yen automount[7120]: >> mount: directory to mount not in host:dir format Jun 24 16:57:45 yen automount[7120]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure on /home/prod Jun 24 16:57:45 yen automount[7120]: failed to mount /home/prod </blockquote> I get the same results if I use the 'sun' format option. for completeness: <blockquote>[root@yen root]# uname -a Linux yen 2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1 #1 Fri Mar 12 14:01:55 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@yen root]# ypcat -k auto.home user host:/export/home/user </blockquote> TIA bobk </body> </html>