<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/4.6.4"> </HEAD> <BODY> Thanks to all for the suggestions. Adding a "local" key to "/etc/auto.home" resolved the problem: <TT>[<A HREF="mailto:root@host">root@host</A> ~]# ipa automountlocation-tofiles VM</TT> <TT>/etc/auto.master:</TT> <TT>/- /etc/auto.direct</TT> <TT>/home /etc/auto.home</TT> <TT>---------------------------</TT> <TT>/etc/auto.direct:</TT> <TT>/mnt/Shared -fstype=nfs4,sec=krb5p host.hunter.org:/srv/nfs/Shared</TT> <TT>---------------------------</TT> <TT>/etc/auto.home:</TT> <TT>* -fstype=nfs4,sec=krb5p host.hunter.org:/srv/nfs/home/&</TT> <TT>local -fstype=nfs4,sec=sys host.hunter.org:/srv/nfs/home/local</TT> <TT>maps not connected to /etc/auto.master:</TT> <TT>[<A HREF="mailto:root@host">root@host</A> ~]# </TT> The only thing that would be better is if "local" did not auto-mount at all. </BODY> </HTML>