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I am running CentOS 6.3 as a VM on a host which has the same installation. I configured my NFS server and I am guessing it works. I say guessing because I can mount the desired folder with mount command on my client machine. So, when I run:

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mount -t nfs -o vers=3 vm2.domain.com:/nethome /neth

it mounts the folder at "/neth";however autofs doesn't do the same and I don't even get any error!
my auto.master:

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/neth    /etc/auto.neth    --timeout=60

my auto.neth:

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* -fstype=nfs,rw,soft,nosuid,nfsvers=3    vm2.domain.com:/nethome/&

I should mention that I have local DNS installed and it work with no problem.
any suggestions?

Hello,
change this

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/neth    /etc/auto.neth    --timeout=60

for this

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/- auto.neth

and restart de service.

Nope, still doesn't work!
is there any log for this damn thing?
I checked /var/log/messages and nothing useful is there!

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any other idea??

First please remove the --timeout=60; it's not a mount option nor a map option (it's a command line argument for the Linux automount process).
I am not sure if the option fstype=nfs is allowed, perhaps you should remove that, too.
Then restart automounter and check the mount point with

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df /neth

it should say something with automount (autofs v4) or - (autofs v5).
The automounted directories will appear inside the /neth,
not browsable, unless you have a -browse map option in auto.master:

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/neth    /etc/auto.neth  -browse

The previous post wrongly suggested a direct map with /abolute mount points, but your map is an indirect map.

it doesn't work!
I figured my mistake in the auto.master and auto.neth...
however, I can not see the folder as a mounted folder and when I check the listing, I can see it.
I am also, not able to write in the folder so when I try

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touch /neth/tst.txt

, I get Permission denied!

What do you get with

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df /neth

?

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showmount -e vm2.domain.com | grep "/nethome"

?

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#df /neth
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
-                            0         0         0   -  /neth

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# showmount -e vm2.domain.com | grep "/nethome"
/nethome 192.168.20.0/24,192.168.20.3