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NFS is not natively compatible with Windows PC shares.  Samba however is.

After downloading and mydsl-loading the Samba.dsl, I "smbmount"ed the share on the windows PC I wanted.

Piece of cake.  

Sorry for distracting post; at least the info is here for the next newbie. :D
Can someone give me a little direction here?

I am trying to use NFS with two DSL boxes. I have been looking at THIS howto doc for direction.

I installed nfs-kernel-server and added /home/dsl/TEST 192.168.1.103(ro) to the etc/exports file.

I then proceeded to go down the list of the howto and start the daemons. I then typed in rpcinfo -p to check that everything was running. It all looked good so I went to the client machine.

I made sure I started the daemons outlined in the howto and also started the nfs common daemon in the DSL menu.

I typed as root

mount 192.168.1.100: /home/dsl/TEST /mnt/home/dsl/TEST

This just gave me a list of the mount commands....basically the mount help screen.

I saw a blurb about an assumption of an empty created mountpoint so I also tried creating a /home/dsl/TEST dir in the mount directory on the client machine but still received the same result. I am guessing I am missing something simple here. Can someone give me a clue. I have spent a few hours trying to figure this one out. Thanks

Chris
The doc is not correct for linux.

See this man page for details:

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/mount.8.html

Without getting too involved (I don't use NFS), it seems like you need something like:

mount -t nfs blahblahblah
Well, I have gotten to the point where I am getting permission denied errors from the client side. I think that's progress.  :)  I think I may be having trouble getting the /etc/hosts files setup correctly. Anyone have any ideas?

Chris
How about /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow
The default is to deny everything something like this:

/etc/hosts.deny
ALL:PARANOID

You will need to have setup this files as well as your /etc/exports
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