After a few tweaks and reading the NFS How To; Tricky's thread, and several various posts I finally setup NFS.
Sad to say, but if I had just installed the slackpack versions of the NFS utils/portmap from the get go, I'd have had to simply add the shares to /etc/exports and be done with it on the server side
Oh well, I learned quite a bit from the HOW TO so it was worth the work
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