Suse 9.3 w/NFS & NIS Client

Have Suse 9.3 on laptop running NFS & NIS Clients and a SuSE 9.3 server running NFS & NIS Servers. It has a strange problem after booting up that I would like a solution for. When I open Konqueror, the directory for the server shared directory does not show up. If I close Konqueror, open the terminal, cd to root director and do an ls, the directory is there. I then Open Konqueror again, and the directory is there and can see the files on the server. What is causing this that I have to open a terminal window and do a ls in order to get Konqueror to see it? Art