On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 02:46 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote: > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:43:44 -0700, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > > > I'm trying to set up an NFS file server on one of the boxes on my LAN > > and have gotten stuck. On the server, I used system-config-nfs to create > > the following /etc/exports file: > > > > /home/magnusg/music 192.168.1.11(rw,sync) 192.168.1.12(rw,sync) > > 192.168.1.13(rw,sync) > > > > to allow the other three boxes r/w access to the directory > > /home/magnusg/music on the server (192.168.1.14). > > > > Also on the server, I used system-config-services to start nfs and > > nfslock on run levels 3 and 5. Then I checked NFS4 on the firewall > > configuration widget system-config-firewall to open tcp and udp ports > > 2049. Then I rebooted the server. > > > > On one of the clients I then did (as root): > > > > mkdir /mnt/PuteF > > mount 192.168.1.14:/home/magnusg/music /mnt/PuteF > > > > and got the error message: > > mount: mount to NFS server '192.168.1.14' failed: System Error: No route > > to host > > > > I'm guessing I need to open more ports, but which ones and where? The > > four boxes are connected to a Linksys router. > > This has been discussed over and over again on this list. so thanks for your patience in going over it one more time. > The NFS server needs some rpc services in addition to nfs proper, such as > mountd, statd, lockd and rquotad. NFS proper runs on port 2049. What > ports do you suppose the rpc services run on? > > Believe it or not, by default, these are assigned random ports when those > services are started (when you start nfs). To see what they happen to be, > run rpcinfo as root on the nfs server: > > rpcinfo -p > > If you stop/start the nfs server you'll see different ports. > > At any rate, you need to open these ports in the firewall. First you > force them to be non-random, by specifying what you want them to be in > /etc/sysconfig/nfs. For instance > > RQUOTAD_PORT=4000 > LOCKD_TCPPORT=4001 > LOCKD_UDPPORT=4001 > MOUNTD_PORT=4002 > STATD_PORT=4003 > > Once you've pinned them down, you open them in the firewall (on the nfs > server) once and for all. > > Furthermore, you need to open the portmapper in the firewall as well > (i.e. port 111 both tcp and udp). The portmapper is needed to tell the > nfs clients what the rpc ports are. > > That's all. > > One more thing. You don't need to put anything in /etc/fstab unless you > want the exported partitions to be mounted permanently on the clients. > Run the automounter on the clients, and then the exported partitions get > mounted on demand. Ex. on a client > > cd /net/my_nfs_server/my_exported_partition > > mounts it first, then changes directory. > Now everything works fine. Thanks for the help and the clear explanation as to what's going on here!
