On Saturday 08 May 2004 20:56, Charles Tharp wrote: > I have been working with trying to run nfs through the firewall . Is it > correct that I must set > my open ports during the install, as I see no way to set them with the > security cfg mge later on. > is it just my distro that I am using, I are running several versions rh9 > from sam's books, fedora from sam,s books and a download from a rh mirrow, > and they all run the same. I saw mention of being able to download a > secruty manager, simular to the version used druing the install. but at > this moment have not been able to find it. > > seems like a can run samba, nfs, ssh all ok with the firwall disabled but > nothing with it on &/customized. > > anyone with si,mulare exeperiances, and fixes. > > > will try dl a running the fc2 this weekend. > catharp.bellsouth.net > www.48lanes.com Firewallings difficult with NFS, because of its seemingly random use of ports. I think that on linux you can restrict the nfs server to specific ports. I tend to run rpcinfo -p nfs_server_name and rpcinfo -p localhost to get a list of ports to allow access at boot up. dave. -- Dr. David Holden. (Systems Developer) Crystallography Journals Online: <http://journals.iucr.org> Thanks in advance:- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See: <http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html> UK Privacy (R.I.P) : http://www.stand.org.uk/commentary.php3 Public GPG key available on request. -------------------------------------------------------------
