Autofs creates an empty directory

This is driving me up the wall...
I'm trying to mount a samba share on a file server in a home network.
Mounting it manually works perfectly:
mount -t cifs -o guest //lancelot/shared /mnt
My auto.master looks like this:
/mnt/shared /etc/auto.lancelot --timeout=0
and auto.lancelot like this:
shared -fstype=cifs,guest ://lancelot/shared
Starting autofs and looking at var/log/messages:
Jun 2 23:59:08 galahad automount[4235]: mounted indirect on /mnt/shared
And indeed, a directory /mnt/dir is created. However, it's empty. I've been going through the Arch wiki, Gentoo wiki, a million different howto's, including one with horrible green on black text, and now I'm at the end of my wits. Help would be appreciated.
San

I know it's late but I'm stuck right now at the exact same spot.
Automount mounts but the folder is empty.
Any help appreciated
Thanks

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