I run amd - on debian.. works like a charm! Doesnt require kernel automount support Only one annoyance I found. Server NFS exports - fileserver:/data1/iso Client Manually mount the export on /iso and do a ls see all the contents of /data/iso Automount it by "ls /iso/somefolder" ls /iso dont see any of the contents of /data/iso ========== FROM DEBIAN ============ apt-cache show am-utils Description: automounter utilities from 4.4BSD (includes amd) Am-utils is a set of tools for automounting filesystems: mounting a filesystem "on demand" when it is first referenced, and unmounting it later if it is no more needed. . Am-utils contains the amd automounter. Jonathan Hutchins wrote: > On Tuesday 25 November 2003 08:35 am, Greg Kedrovsky wrote: > > >>Is there a special deal with NFS and mountable filesystems (like a cdrom >>or internal zip drive)? > > > You don't specify, but it sounds as if you might be mounting these > filesystems as a user. How about using something like supermount or > automount? > > I believe you also need to re-export the NFS shares after you mount a > resource. > > >