Thanks Ray, If I can find a solution then I will post it so that others can see what I had to do.
Thanks again, Lonnie > The NFS port is 2049. The rpc.portmapper port is 111, and it is > involved in NFS mounts. I really don't know the detials of how > this should work through a firewall (unlike you, I *do* get the > "last word" here, and we wouldn't even try this), but the "RPC" > in your failure message is probably the failed Remote Procedure > Call to the portmapper. (I assume the 1.2.3.4 part of what you > posted is fake and you are using the correct real IP address.) > > I'm sorry I can't help you more specifically than this. You're > probably going to have to experiment a bit to get this working > right, and once you do, it may be worth your posting the details > here, since I haven't ever seen this question posed before. > > At 08:39 PM 1/28/02 -0500, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: >>Hello Ray, >> >>Actually because of the nature of our setup here, w have 2 >>machines that need allow for nfs mounting and although my >>personnal thoughts are that they too should be behind the >>firewall completely, >>unfortunately I do not get the last word in this. >> >>Opening port 2049 means that I have added this rule to the >>ipfilter.conf file. >> >>$IPMASQADM portfw -a -P udp -L $EXTERN_IP 2040 -R 192.168.1.16 >>2049 >> >>That is strance because the information that I was seeing from >>nmap suggested taht the nfs port was udp and on 2049 although I >>might be wrong. >> >>I actually do, from the client "mount 1.2.3.4:/testdir /test" >>and after about 3 - 4 minutes I get: >> >>mount: RPC: Timed out >> >>does this help to clear things up? >> >>Do I also need to open udp/tcp port 111? > > [old stuff deleted] > > -- > ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- > Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo > Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- Lonnie Cumberland OutStep Technologies Incorporated (313) 832-7366 URL: http://www.outstep.com EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
