automount in fedora 17 SOLVED

[Braden McDaniel]

On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 22:04 +0200, paul van der meij wrote:
> The problem was that the firewall on my FC14 fileserver had port 111
> (sunrpc) blocked.
> The mount on my FC17 client does not use sunrpc, but the automount
> does.
> After allowing port 111 everything worked fine, with everything
> default in the autofs control files, so no extra nfs parameters.

I just came across this message after having lived with automount (of my
NFS4 shares) not working on my F17 box for several weeks.  Sure enough,
opening this port on my server's firewall fixed the problem.  But, why
should this be required for NFS4?  Automounting in Fedora 16 clients
certainly doesn't require it.

I've filed bug 845313, which hopefully will yield a definitive answer.

-- 
Braden McDaniel <braden at endoframe.com>