NFS ports?

[Bob Goodwin]

Aldo Foot wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Bob Goodwin<bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
>   
>>   It appears to me that NFS requires ports 111 and 2049, both of which
>>   I have opened in the firewall via firestarter.  But that doesn't
>>   seem to be enough, after struggling to make a connection  it also
>>   needed some high numbered ports, right now, 43509, but that changes
>>   from time to time. I have to keep checking the firestarter events
>>   log on both the server and client to see what needs to be opened. I
>>   usually block by defaullt and open only the ports needed. Perhaps
>>   that wont work with NFS?
>>
>>   If anyone can offer some suggestion I would appreciate it.
>>
>>   Bob
>>     
>
> Read the source[1] and eSearch for "nfs static ports". You'll
> get your answer by the time you're done reading.
>
> [1] http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s2-sysconfig-nfs.html
>
> The key file is /etc/sysconfig/nfs.
>
> ~af
>
>   

I've spent some time fooling with the configuration. In each case it 
asks for an "unused" port number. So I simply collected a list of ports 
that worked from the Firestarter Events Log. As indicated "x=....." 
below, that seems a rather unscientific approach but it appears to work. 
Am I painting myself into a corner? I will probably want to access the 
server from my daughters Apple Mac's eventually!

The client command I'm using:  [root at box9 bobg]# mount.nfs 
box48:/home/NFS-files  /mnt/home -s

I have not been able to make nfs4 work however although it appears to be 
present in F-10?

Your help is much appreciated.

Bob

            The /etc/sysconfig/nfs may not exist by default on all
            systems. If it does not exist, create it and add the
            following variables (alternatively, if the file exists,
            un-comment and change the default entries as required):

            MOUNTD_PORT="x"        x=57886

                control which TCP and UDP port mountd (rpc.mountd) uses.
                Replace x with an unused port number.

            STATD_PORT="x"         x=52861

                control which TCP and UDP port status (rpc.statd) uses.
                Replace x with an unused port number.

            LOCKD_TCPPORT="x"      x=37277

                control which TCP port nlockmgr (rpc.lockd) uses.
                Replace x with an unused port number.

            LOCKD_UDPPORT="x"      x=39241

                control which UDP port nlockmgr (rpc.lockd) uses.
                Replace x with an unused port number.



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