NIS and autofs trouble with FC5

Hi,

We have been successfully using NIS with autofs for several years.
However, recently when I upgraded one of our servers, and my desktop
client machine to use Fedora Code 5, things started to fall apart.
We have an "auto.home" file that is provided by our NIS server. If
the NIS server is running on our old server (running EL 1), everything
works great from all client machines. However, if the FC5 server is
handling NIS, when I attempt to access an autofs directory from my FC5
client, ie: /home/steve, I get the following error reported to the log
on my client machine:

Nov 8 08:55:59 steve-pc3 automount[14242]: >> mount: special device
/mnt/users/software/steve does not exist
Nov 8 08:55:59 steve-pc3 automount[14242]: failed to mount /home/steve

It appears that the server "marge:" is being stripped from the mount
device.

The line in auto.home is the same as it has always been:
steve marge:/mnt/users/software/steve

ypcat auto.home displayes the correct auto.home file.

Interestingly, if I attempt to access /home/steve from another client,
not running FC5, for instance an old Solaris machine, everything works
fine.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

-Steve

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