the Riz <riz@boogers.sf.ca.us> writes:

> "beast" is the new system, running 1.2E, and "melvin" is a preexisting
> system running 1.2.   Here's beast's /etc/exports: 
> 
> ... then, on melvin:
> 
> melvin# mount beast:/work2 /mnt
> melvin# ls /mnt
> ls: /mnt: Permission denied

Probably, beast doesn't permit use of non reserved port and melvin
doesn't uses reserved port for each nfs call.  So, try to make either
melvin to use reserved port or beast to permit non reserved port.
Please read and compare exports(5) and mount_nfs(8) on each machine.

enami