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. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines