I certainly think it would work. NFS is NFS regardless of the OS on the server.
Have you tried leaving out the trailing slash?
mount_nfs bambam:/home /mnt/bambam/home

> # mount_nfs bambam:/home/ /mnt/bambam/home
> mount_nfs: /mnt/bambam/home: Protocol not supported
> 
> I get that message.  Should NFS work between a linux and
> BSD machine?  If so could someone give me some clues as
> to how to make it  work?