A static mount would work fine here, I'd think. The advantage of automounting is mostly convenience and the fact that if you have lots of clients hitting an NFS export, it will only be mounted by the ones who need it at any given time. If your running a server with lots of people logging in, then chances are someone will always want their home directory at any given time, so automounter won't ever time out. Seems more practical to use a static mount in that situation, since you would assume resources are used every time an automatic mount is done. Not sure if this helps or not... Chris __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you?re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html