Export NFS through firewall

Joseph Loo jloo at acm.org
Wed Jul 18 01:15:36 UTC 2007


Renich Bon Ciric wrote:
> Check this out:
> 
> http://www.fedorasolved.org/post-install-solutions/nfsv4-fedora/
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 18:58 -0700, Joseph Loo wrote:
>> I am fairly new to this list and fedora 7. I have been trying to export an NFS
>> drive outside the machine. I have checked to make sure the mount is working, by
>> doing ls /net/orion. It shows the drive without any problem.
>>
>> I use the administrator menu firewall and SELINUX and checked off the NFS item.
>> I rebooted the machine an a freign machine is not able to see the drive. I open
>> up the service and stopped iptables, and the directoy appears on the foreign
>> machine with no problem. restarted iptables, and the directory disappears.
>>
>> My first question is how do i change the firewall rules to allow it through? Is
>> there a site that gives examples on opening this portion of the firewall?
>>
>> -- 
>> Joseph Loo
>> jloo at acm.org
>>
I have tried to use system-config-securitylevel. It seems that this program will
not open the firewall. In fact, this version will not even let me put in port
111 into the program.

I have found another program called firestarter a gnome app. It seems to open
the firewall properly.

-- 
Joseph Loo
jloo at acm.org




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