I have the following machine setup;
Server Solaris 2.8
Client Redhat 8.0
mkdir /direct

The following command works fine

mount -t nfs -w server:/apps/links /direct/soft

I want to use automount instead. I have edited /etc/auto.master to have the following;

/direct auto.test

I have edited /etc/auto.test to have the following;

soft server:/apps/links

The following command appears to run with no errors but /direct/soft does not exist

[root@life etc]# init.d/autofs reload
Checking for changes to /etc/auto.master ....
Start /usr/sbin/automount /direct /etc/auto.test

I have also tried creating /direct/soft to no avail.

Any ideas?

I've never played with the automounter but why are your using it? Unless you're on a very large distributed network you're going to introduce more of an overhead mounting/unmounting your filesystems than just leaving them connected.

cheers

Jamie...

have you tried:

/etc/fstab:
server:/apps/links /direct/soft nfs defaults 1 0