Comment 9 for bug 306673

Whilst setting up some Linux boxes for normal users (who don't know about
mounting/unmounting...) I noticed that when you try to access an autofs'd
floppy drive from nautilus (1.0.4), the device will mount, but the mount
doesn't hold, it disappears as soon as the timeout (in this case 2
secondes) expires, upon which nautilus throws you back to your home directory.

The problem doesn't arise with supermount (patching the kernel is a viable
workaround).

From what I know about autofs, I'd say that nautilus is lsing the directory
it shows, but isn't cding to it before hand, hence the loss of lock, and
the unmounting.

I'm not too familiar with the nautilus code, so I can't say for sure, but I
think a

sprintf(&buffer,"cd %s",dir);
system(buffer);

in the function that's invoked when you change directory should do the
trick for this one (needs testing though, I can't quite remember if
system() opens a new shell for it's commands, which is closed upon exit, or
whether it goes straight through the applications interfaces. If it's the
former, this fix would not work).