That still didn't get it. It may be a NIS issue. I started setting up NIS at one point, and realized it was going to take more effort than I had time for.
Using Yast, NIS is about 5 clicks per client maybe 6 for a server;-) But that shouldn't have any bearing on your nfs problem.
Right now I can't change it because I'm copying the CDs to the installation server share point. That was what I was trying to avoid by pointing to the DVD. I don't have a DVD drive on the installation server, so I wanted to point YaST to a shared DVD drive on the network. It's not all that much effort to fish the disks.
We tried mounting the 9.3 dvd as a NFS share for our installation server but there were timing problems as the disk had to spin up to speed and even then it could only cope with one install at a time. I'd recommend copying the whole lot to a hard drive somewhere on your lan (it's about 8GB) mounting it somewhere and exporting _that_. The speed increase will impress. Steve.