Finder doesn't force automounted volumes to automount

[I posted this on the Finder discussion forum and got no response. I thought I'd try again in this forum. If there is no workaround, then it is surely a bug.]
I have the home file systems on several Linux systems on my network set up as NFS automounts on my Mac running MacOS X 10.4.7. As I expect, if nothing is using the file systems they eventually get unmounted. My problem is that I then have to use the Unix command line to get them remounted. E.g., I have to do something like:
ls -l /Network/Server/bernoulli/home
to get the file system on host bernoulli remounted, but trying to open this directory in the finder doesn't do that. Is there any way of doing this using the finder?
I used Netinfo Manager to set up the automounts with settings such as:
name bernoulli:/home
opts (net, -2, -P)
vfstype nfs
Regards,
Rob.
eMac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Dont know if this will help but ive alwayseed used the "dir" propertry with a value of "/Network/Servers" for any dynamic mount dont know if that would be an issue or not...

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I have the home file systems on several Linux systems on my network set up as NFS automounts on my Mac running MacOS X 10.4.7. As I expect, if nothing is using the file systems they eventually get unmounted. My problem is that I then have to use the Unix command line to get them remounted. E.g., I have to do something like:
ls -l /Network/Server/bernoulli/home
to get the file system on host bernoulli remounted, but trying to open this directory in the finder doesn't do that. Is there any way of doing this using the finder?
I used Netinfo Manager to set up the automounts with settings such as:
name bernoulli:/home
opts (net, -2, -P)
vfstype nfs
Regards,
Rob.
Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I've marked this as answered because I got no response and so decided to try again in the Admin discussion forum.

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