Getting autofs to work.

["R. Clayton" <rclayton@monmouth.edu>]

I've installed autofs 

  $ dpkg --status autofs
  Package: autofs
  Status: install ok installed
  Priority: extra
  Section: utils
  Installed-Size: 296
  Maintainer: Daniel Lutz <danlutz@debian.org>
  Version: 3.9.99-4.0.0pre10-1
  [ deleted ]

  $

on woody to mange 

  $ cat /etc/auto.master 
  /media /etc/auto.media

  $

in the /media directory

  $ ls -ld /media
  drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Jun  5 12:22 /media

  $

a floppy and cdrom drive

  $ cat /etc/auto.media
  cdrom -fstype=iso990,ro,nodev,nosuid :/dev/hdc
  floppy -fstype=auto,sync,nodev,nosuid,umask=000 :/dev/fd0

  $ dmesg | egrep 'hdc|fd0'
      ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc98-0xfc9f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
  hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6202B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
  hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
  Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.44M

  $ 

with a timeout of 1

  $ cat /etc/default/autofs 
  TIMEOUT=1

  $ 

However, autofs doesn't seem to be working:

  $ /etc/init.d/autofs restart
  Stopping automounter: done.
  Starting automounter:  /mediadone.

  $ cd /media/cdrom
  bash: cd: /media/cdrom: No such file or directory

  $ ls /media/cdrom
  ls: /media/cdrom: No such file or directory

  $ mount /cdrom

  $ cd /cdrom

  $ ls
  a  c  pi  pr

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Assuming I didn't know what noauto meant, I commented out those entries in
/etc/fstab

  $ cat /etc/fstab
  /dev/hda3    /        ext3    errors=remount-ro       0       1
  /dev/hda2    none     swap    sw                      0       0
  proc         /proc    proc    defaults                0       0
  #/dev/fd0    /floppy  auto    user,noauto             0       0
  #/dev/cdrom  /cdrom   iso9660 ro,user,noauto          0       0
  /dev/hda1    /boot    ext2    defaults                0       2
  /dev/sda1    /mnt/fob vfat    uid=1000,gid=1000,user,noauto,noatime 0 0

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and autofs still doesn't work.

Any suggestions as to what might be wrong?