How to Mount With the Automounter

Chapter 5, About Autofs includes the specific instructions for establishing and supporting mounts with the automounter. Without any changes to the generic system, clients should be able to access remote file systems through the /net mount point. To mount the /export/share/local file system from the previous example, all you would need to do is:

% cd /net/bee/export/share/local

Because the automounter allows all users to mount file systems, root access is not required. It also provides for automatic unmounting of file systems, so there is no need to unmount file systems after you are done.