On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:30:37AM -0800, Preston Crawford wrote: > I ended up going with Samba because I couldn't figure out how to > open up my firewall (yes, I use a firewall on my desktop even though > I'm behind one of those D-Link cable modem routers) to open ports > correctly to let NFS through. I'm not sure what's worse. To turn off > my firewall completely or to use Samba because getting it to work > through my firewall was easier. Running NFS through iptables can be done-- you basically reconfigure the RPC services to use specified ports rather than going through the portmapper. There's a good tutorial here: http://www.lowth.com/LinWiz/nfs_help.html -- Matt Matthew Zimmerman Interdisciplinary Biophysics, University of Virginia http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mdz4c/
