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I think many newer environments are switching from NIS to ActiveDirectory (in Windows deployments) or LDAP, for both user account info as well as things like automount.
I've never used a setup like that so I can't say whether it works better or not with networkmanager.
Certainly it's ridiculous that this has been broken for years in Ubuntu. I've never worked at a company that DIDN'T use this model for mapping directories, and not just home directories but all sorts of standard shared directories. It works so nicely with Red Hat: you just bring up a system, tell it to use DHCP and what its hostname is, and voila! All is perfect: you have your DNS servers configured, NIS service configured, NTP service configured, hostname entered into DNS, etc. No effort required.
On Ubuntu, many of these things don't work and require manual tweaking, for no reason that I can see except that no one has felt it was a priority to fix the problems.
Pity.