autofs - ls doesn't appear to work?

["Bernard McAuley" <bernard mcauley phyworks-ic com>]

Hi,

I'm runing autofs-3.1.7-21 and it is up and running OK, but the
automounter only kicks in when a directory is moved to.  For example,
support I have a root directory /example in which I put two keys test1
and test2.  So that the final directories would look like:-

/example/test1
/example/test2

If I cd /example/test1 or cd /example/test2 then everything works find.
However, if before this I were to cd /example and run an ls then I can
see no directories.

I seem to remember this being a problem with older versions of the
Solaris automount system.  Is there a fix for this in autofs, or am I
perhaps missing something in the setup, or am I simply stuck with this
behaviour?

Regards,


Bernard McAuley