I seem to recall (memory is rather hazy) that the public mount option
seemed to make NFS easier through a firewall (even though the man
pages really made no sense as to what the option actually does -- i
think it references something that no one outside of sun has ever
heard of).


On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:32 AM, Brian Ruthven - Solaris Network
Sustaining - Oracle UK <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I don't believe there is a way to do this and IIRC, this is one of the
> problems that NFSv4 set out to address by only using a single port for all
> operations, instead of the splattering of port numbers for nfsd, mountd,
> statd, etc...
>
> mountd is an RPC-based service, and as such relies upon rpcbind to provide
> the rpc prognum -> port number mapping. It cannot be run in a "standalone"
> mode.
>
> Regards,
> Brian
>
>
>
> Peter Baer Galvin wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, this should be obvious (or at least documented or discussed) but I
>> can't find it.
>>
>> Trying to get NFS V3 mountd on Solaris 10 (i.e. the smf service
>> nfs/server) to listen on a static port (to get NFS mount to work through a
>> firewall).
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> --
> Brian Ruthven
> Solaris Network RPE (Sustaining)
> Oracle UK
>
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