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 > > _______________________________________________ > networking-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
