Autofs under Fedora-12

[Timothy Murphy]

Mogens Kjaer wrote:

> On 11/23/2009 12:58 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> ....
>> I meant the mount command:
>> sudo mount alfred:/common /common
> 
> Why do you use autofs at all if you give a command
> to do the mounting?

I only give the mount command because autofs is not working
on this laptop under Fedora-12.
It did work under Fedora-11.
And it does work on 2 other Thinkpad T43s under Fedora-12.

> I would have made (after umount /common and removing
> the empty folder /common):
> 
> ln -s /net/alfred/common /common
> 
> then autofs does the mounting automatically as soon as you
> access the /common folder.

I'm not clear on this.
With the autofs setting I have, if it works,
the directory is mounted (invisibly) as soon as I try to access it.

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