Mogens Kjaer: >> 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. Timothy Murphy: > 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. Yes, that is what should happen. I've been doing something just like Mogens Kjaer outlined, for many years. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines