[CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

Tue Jul 5 17:11:59 UTC 2011
Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com>

Boris Epstein wrote:
>> Is the OS X firewall blocking nfs?
>>
>> How are you mounting the export? If you're not trying it from within
>> Terminal, does it work from within it?
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> The OS X firewall dos not appear to be a factor. Actually it works
> just fine when I turn off the firewall on the CentOS end.
>
> Could it be that even when I am trying to mount over the TCP the NFS
> client on the Mac OS X side still tried to connect to some UDP port? I
> am asking that because everyone else mounts just fine with the
> firewall up on the server end.
>   
As I recall OS X only does NFS via TCP - other clients can use UDP - 
make sure your CentOS firewall has the TCP ports open.
HTH
> Boris.
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