On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 23:56 -0500, 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 Have a look at http://www.novaglobal.com.sg/?q=node/68 for some good info on forcing various NFS daemons to use specific ports. TC