I provided one of the administrative computing technical support staff 
persons at my university with a 16 Gbyte USB flash drive (USB stick) 
onto which to copy a 5.3 Gbyte tar.gz file.

The USB stick was returned to me with an exfat filesystem.  Using two RPMs:

fuse-exfat-1.0.1-2.el6.x86_64
exfat-utils-1.0.1-2.el6.x86_64

that I installed as root using the pull down menu application under 
"System" on the top panel (bar) of the SL stock supplied gnome, I was 
able to manually mount the USB stick.

[root@jb344 ykarant]# mount -t exfat /dev/sde1 /media1/exfat
FUSE exfat 1.0.1
[root@jb344 ykarant]# ls -la /media1/exfat
total 5125060
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root      32768 Dec 31  1969 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root       4096 Jun  2 14:21 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root      32768 May 22 07:31 .fseventsd
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root      32768 May 22 07:31 .Spotlight-V100
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root      32768 May 22 07:31 .Trashes
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root       4096 May 22 07:31 ._.Trashes
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5247873590 May 15 04:06 ykarant.d20131217.tar.gz

after which a plain cp followed by tar -xvzf accesses the contents that 
I actually need.

However, the usual automount function did not work, and the usual 
automount application icon on the top panel did not appear.

Does anyone know what specific configuration files need to be altered so 
that a fuse exfat USB file system will automount without manual 
intervention?

Yasha Karant