where to debug automount problem

[Robert Swan <rswanster@gmail.com>]

Hello;

Where should I ask for help getting a Debian system to automount nfs volumes? 

My problem is as follows:

I am able to 

> ypcat -k auto.home | grep robert
robert hostname:/export/users/zzz073/robert

then 

> mount hostname:/export/users/zzz073/robert /home/robert

and ls /home/robert works as expected. However, if I 

> automount /var/autofs/home/ yp auto.home

and then try to ls /var/autofs/home/robert, I get ls:
/var/autofs/home/robert: No such file or directory, and
/var/log/syslog contains


localhost automount[23333]: failed to mount /var/autofs/home/robert


If I add -d and -v to the automount command line I get a whole bunchof
stuff in syslog but it doesn't help much. I can post this if required.

Thanks for any help.

Robert