Sounds like rpc.portmap isn't started, or not started correctly.
Is your machine seeing DNS correctly with itself and others on your lan?
nathan
> Minuses
> "mount -t nfs xxx:/opt/music /music" took several minutes to complete.
> Not sure why but, once it finished, accesses to /music appeared to go
> normally with no untoward delays. (System xxx runs RedHat 7.1 with a
> 2.4.9-34 RedHat built kernel.)