NFS-server and firewall

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Thu Aug 12 15:42:03 UTC 2004


Once upon a time Thursday 12 August 2004 8:32 am, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Today I tried to enable the NFS-server on one of our FC2 machines. Up to
> now I only succeeded when I switched off the firewall on the machine.
>
> I normally use the "systemsettings --> Security level" menu from the
> desktop. The resulting "Security level configuration" window only allows a
> few "trusted services" (NFS not amogst them), "trusted devices" and "other
> ports". Probably the best way is to insert some port-numbers. But which
> ones should I allow? It is just a "standard" NFS configuration, with
> "standard" ports.

you can use system settings -> security level  add 
2049:tcp, 2049:udp, 111:tcp, 111:udp 
to the other ports section at the bottom  

this will allow you to use nfs over either udp or tcp 

Dennis
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