Automount using OpenLDAP broken on Lion

Hi everyone,
Having a wierd issue with my new MacBook Air with Lion. I have the OpenLDAP server set up and can successfully authenticate and login users on it. The only thing that is broken is the automount. The Lion MacBook Air can read the automount keys from the LDAP server (verified with dscl), but automount refuses to use them (even when /etc/auto_master has only one line "+auto_master" uncommented). Using automount with the /etc/auto_master and /etc/auto_home works fine.
I'm using the same configuration that is working just fine with my other Mac running Snow Leopard, so the issue can't be on the server side.
The automount doc on the Lion MacBook is the same as on Snow Leopard, but following it does not help.
Anybody run into similar issues? any ideas? is there an equivalent to nsswitch.conf on Macs?
Thanks!

Here's the skeleton of my configurations, for Autofs Linux and OSX interoperability :
dn: automountMapName=auto.master,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: automountMap
automountMapName: auto.master
dn: automountKey=/home,automountMapName=auto.master,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: automount
automountInformation: auto_home
automountKey: /home
dn: automountMapName=auto_master,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: top
objectClass: automountMap
automountMapName: auto_master
dn: automountKey=/home,automountMapName=auto_master,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: automount
automountInformation: auto_home -nobrowse,hidefromfinder
automountKey: /home
dn: automountMapName=auto_home,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: automountMap
automountMapName: auto_home
dn: automountKey=an_user,automountMapName=auto_home,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: automount
automountInformation: -fstype=nfs,vers=3,soft,intr,rsize=16384,wsize=16384,nosuid fileserver.example.com:/vol/home/&
automountKey: an_user

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