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From: Bill Shannon <bill.shannon@sun.com>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu NFS automount problem
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:35:34 -0800
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To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
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Ian Kent wrote:
>> I just tried that on Linux with autofs and it doesn't seem to work.
>> Is there a Linux equivalent for the "-hosts" pseudo-map on Solaris?
> 
> Yes, with autofs version 4 use "/net /etc/auto.net" in the master map
> which generally should work the way you expect. The internal hosts map
> is available in autofs version 5, which I suspect may be called autofs5
> in ubuntu.

Ah ha!

For reasons I no longer remember, I replaced the standard Ubuntu
/etc/auto.net with my (stupidly wrong) version some time ago.
I just rediscovered the original Ubuntu version and it seems to be
working fine.

Thanks for your help, and sorry for the stupid questions...