I thought this question died for lack of interest...the notification seems to have taken the long way around the net.

No, rhce doesn't actually want me to serve nfs from debian. ;) But I figured since the knoppix install is my primary os on this box it'd be nice to know how to do it...the rhel box is a secondary machine, no biggie what's running on it.

Anyway, I got help on #debian, fixed me right up: nfs-kernel-server start; exportfs is what I needed, having already tweaked the /etc/exports file. I blogged my joy, but didn't think there'd been any activity here; mea culpa.

I think folks already guessed it's a knoppix hd install. But, word of warning, I've heard the folks at #debian don't consider a knoppix install to be a debian install. Put differently, I was chatting with a guy who said he got flamed on #debian when he asked about his knoppix. ymmv. I chose not to mention knoppix when I posed my questions.

http://www.oblios-cap.com/blosxom.cgi/2004/10/09#95rhce