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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFS through a firewall

Hamie

2008-04-11

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On Friday 11 April 2008 13:49:11 Roger Mason wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to configure the firewall on a client to allow that client
> to mount an nfs directory. The client runs a netfilter firewall, the
> server uses tcpwrapper.

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>
> If I drop the client firewall the mount succeeds.
>
> Can someone help me figure out what must be put in my iptables script
> to get this to work?
>

Do you have the option to run nfsv4? It uses only port tcp-2049. That way you
don't need portmapper (port 111), lockmgr, status, or mountd.

Hamish.

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