[CentOS] NFS and Linux Firewall Conflict

[John Hinton]

Brian Bartlett wrote:

>Good luck!  Many ports are used for NFS and many are continuously
>changing.  I ran into this problem and found this article to be very
>handy.
>http://www.lowth.com/LinWiz/nfs_help.html
>
>Good luck
>Brian
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Thanks! I had seen somewhere else to edit /etc/sysconfig/nfs, but, there 
was no such file. This article said to create or edit it. I created it, 
wrote

MOUNTD_PORT=4002

... and I'm up and running!

John Hinton

>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
>Behalf Of John Hinton
>Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 10:45 AM
>To: CentOS
>Subject: [CentOS] NFS and Linux Firewall Conflict
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>If I run
>
>showmount -e <my_server_ip>
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>from the client, with the firewall set to on on the server, I get
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>rpc mount export: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = No route to host
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>If I turn it off, I can connect.
>
>So far, I have 111 and 2049 tcp and udp open and 4002 udp open.
>
>Anybody know what I'm missing?
>
>Best,
>John Hinton
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