I was reading man 5 autofs and it describes the key as the part of the pathname between the mountpoint and the path into the filesystem mounted. Usually you can think about the key as a sub- directory name below the mountpoint. the location is /dev/sdb1 and this is mounted to /mnt/windows_g So, what would the key be? Kind regards Kevin -- "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."