If there are no available means to resolve the hostname "gate" to any valid IP address, then /net/gate won't be available. I guess, your DNS might've been down giving you these issues ?? - Anoop <div>On 10/11/06, Erwin Rol <<a href="mailto:mailinglists@erwinrol.com">mailinglists@erwinrol.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hey all, I have a weird problem, since a while autofs did not want to work with /net/gate anymore. gate is the name of one of my computers. Before it always worked just fine and i could access /net/gate/home/erwin to get my home dir from that machine via NFS. After a while i found out that when i add "<a href="http://192.168.2.1">192.168.2.1</a> gate gate" to my hosts file it works again. The question is is it normal that the host name must be in /etc/hosts before autofs will work with nfs ? TIA, Erwin -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list"> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div>