On Sun, 9 May 2004, David Holden wrote: > 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. Googling for "nfs firewall linux" turned up: http://www.lowth.com/LinWiz/nfs_help.html. I found it most helpful. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
