I’ve been messing around with some weird behavior on the Ubuntu 10.04 while setting up Autofs to auto mount some NFS shares from a remote server.

My setup

Server:
Debian Lenny (IP 192.168.1.123)
Standard NFS-server
A simple export setup (1 share) /mnt/storage

Client:
Ubuntu 10.04
Autofs…

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