I hope you got something useful out of that exchange with Jeff about the problem I found with one particular instance of an nfs server (on Mageia 1). If nothing else it goes to show that unexpected issues can arise which defeat our best efforts, no matter how closely we follow the recipe.
You said you are using Mandriva 2010 and I found that setting up my nfs server on Mandriva 2010.2 in a LAN which is, topographically, almost identical to yours, was completely successful. If you are still having issues then it is definitely time to look for the error messages. Richard
