I've never used autofs and am trying to get it setup. Following the debian wiki and an Ubuntu howto.
I've installed the pkg: aptitude search ^autofs|grep ^i i autofs - kernel-based automounter for Linux created mount point: mkdir /projects-nfs I've edited /etc/auto.master by adding this line: /projects-nfs /etc/auto.master.d/prj-nfs.autofs --timeout=180 Created the directory `mkdir /etc/auto.master.d' and spec'ed in `/etc/auto.master'. created /etc/auto.master.d/prj-nfs.autofs like so (as spec'ed in auto.master): d0 --fstype=nfs4,rw,soft,intr 191.168.1.42:/projects/d0 dv --fstype=nfs4,rw,soft,intr 191.168.1.42:/projects/dv Those directories on that host are available. They reside a solaris (x86) host and set to be available by nfs. They can be mounted manually{to different dir than above}: mount -t nfs 2x:/projects/dv /nfs/dv Checking /nfs/dv... I find it is mounted.