Setting up an NFS connection with NFSv4 - I am failing

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I am try to set up a dedicated NFSV4 connection between my workstation and a network renderer, both are on the same subnet. The workstation is running KDE desktop with the server on 192.168.169.236 and the client device is (I believe) a debian variant.
I have been trying to create a read only connection between the two machines, not the whole subnet.

The server has the following export:-

/run/media/alastair/old_data    192.168.168.236(ro,root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check)

I set this up using Yast2 and enabled nfs on the firewall but there is a warning message concerning the Firewall not being configurable which might be an issue but whatever the problem, when logged into the client device I cannot see the server. Please could I have some guidance on this.

2

Checking my NFS server, I see that I have changed firewall rules to allow

mountd
nfs
nfs3
rpc-bind

That’s all for the “public” zone.

3

It is getting late and keeping up with the rugby but should I have the server address IP in this line? I may be confusing client and host!!!

I shall switch to NFSv3 and see if that helps.

4

Try adding insecure to your options. This tripped me up for the longest time when making the switch to v4. According to the exports man page:

The insecure option in this entry also allows clients with NFS implementations that don’t use a reserved port for NFS.