Remote NFS problems

[Bohmer, Andre ten]

>Sent: vrijdag 19 november 2004 18:12
>To: redhat-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Remote NFS problems
>
>I have several Sun Solaris 8 and RedHat Linux 9 NFS servers.  From
>inside our building all is good.  From home, on my Sun or my Linux box
>I've defined each server in /etc/hosts and I can mount and operate on
>any file system that I like weather it's from a Sun or Linux 
>NFS server.
>
>We have an employee who lives across the county and he's on 
>Verizon DSL.
>He's running RedHat 9 on his workstation.  He can get to the Sun
>exported NFS shares just fine but he can not get to anything that's
>shared off of any of the RedHat servers.  Meanwhile I can get to them
>just fine.  He sees nothing more than a timeout most of the time.
>Although sometimes he can get into a share, maybe get part of 
>an ls or a
>do a more on a file before seeing a timeout.
>
>Does this sound like it's a client problem or a server problem?  What
>should I be looking at to try and resolve this problem?  We 
>have about a
>dozen Sun servers that he's fine with (and he even builds 
>software whose
>source is remote mounted) and about half as many Linux servers that
>exhibit this problem.
>
>Any ideas?
We had some client problems reaching NFS shares via a PIX firewall and
found this very useful information from Network Appliance about NFS a.o.
special mount options: http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/ftp/3183.pdf
Hope it's of any help to you.

Cheers,
Andre