[Gllug] NFS across firewall

[Grzegorz Jaskiewicz]

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On Sunday 08 of June 2003 18:37, Richard Turner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two boxen plugged-into a combo ADSL/switch.  Since they're
> essentially both plugged-into the Net (albeit with NAT done by the router)
> they both run firewalls, but I'd like to be able to use NFS to access one's
> files from the other (only one of them has a monitor).
>
> Can anyone tell me which ports I need to open?  Simply opening 111 and 2049
> for TCP and UDP doesn't seem to do the trick (I get 'mount: RPC: Timed
> out'), but I know that the rest of my set-up is OK because if I bring down
> the firewalls entirely then I can mount the exports.
try netstat -pa and see what it will tells you about who is opening which 
port.
You might also do trick i am using, by setting up iptables LOG module to log 
activity :-) this will tell you which port and where. Works for me.


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Grzegorz Jaskiewicz
K4 Labs
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