Thanks to all of you who've taken the time to reply. Unfortunately, I don't have an nfs configuration file inside /etc/sysconfig/ Should I create it? What should I put in it? Just what I'm being told about the ports or something else besides that? Thanks again, EJ > On Friday 16 December 2005 04:56, redhatdude@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Hi, > > Let's see if I have more luck with this question and somebody answers > > it. > > I'm trying to share a folder using NFS. The problem I'm having is > > with the ports some of the daemons use and the firewall. The ports > > for portmapper and nfsd remain the same all the time and I can open > > them in the firewall. However, daemons such as lockd and mountd > > change every time I load the nfs service. What I'd like to do is bind > > these daemos to a specific port that would remain open in the > > firewall. How can I accomplish that? > > Thanks a lot for any help, > > EJ > > On a fedora system put the following in /etc/sysconfig/nfs. It defines the > ports for the various daemons to use. > > > # Created 05.07.05 by Tony Molloy > # based on work by Christopher K. Johnson ( dorigo.net ) > > RPCNFSDCOUNT=32 > > # ports for statd daemon > STATD_PORT=4000 > STATD_OUTGOING_PORT=4004 > > # ports for lockd daemon > LOCKD_TCPPORT=4001 > LOCKD_UDPPORT=4001 > > # ports for mountd daemon > #MOUNTD_NFS_V2=no > #MOUNTD_NFS_V3=no > MOUNTD_PORT=4002 > > # ports for rquota daemon > #RQUOTAD=no > RQUOTAD_PORT=4003 > > > Make sure you allow access to these daemons in your /etc/hosts.allow file > and through your firewall. > > > Tony
