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

Tue Jul 5 19:34:09 UTC 2011
Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>

On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Boris Epstein wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS
>      X machine
> 
>>
>> 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?
>> ______________________________________________
>
> 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.

Hi Boris. For any network connectivity problems, I'd 
recommend using wireshark. It's in the Centos updates repo. 
Just try 'yum info wireshark*' Running that will enable you 
pinpoint what your network problem is.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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