[Gllug] NFS across firewall

[Ian Norton]

easiest solution i can think of is to set up a vpn between them, its by far the
safest option,

Ian

On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 06:37:56PM +0100, 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.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richard.
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