benny wrote>

I have a problem with automount on Solaris. The problem appears on both Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 8. On the first attempt to access any directory located on the filer the automount request times out but on the second attempt it mounts the directory. It takes 15 seconds to mount the directory. All other mounts after the first one has been mounted works fine. This behaviour appears everytime I try to access a directory after the automounter has released all mounts. Automount works just fine on AIX, HP-UX, Linux when accessing the same directories.

I guess that your Solaris systems are using DNS and that the hostname lookup for the fileserver is taking a long time. You can test this by pinging the fileserver from the same client.

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