On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:51:11AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Alec T. Habig wrote: > > > > > I was poking at this yesterday myself with no success, so would love > > > to know what the answer is. > > > > > > This is especially important since by default, iptables is installed > > > and active, and AFAIK the only way for nfs to coexist with iptables > > > is use nfs4. So out of the box, nfs doesn't work unless one > > > disables a security tool, aside from the issue that nfs4 is designed > > > to have a much higher level of security than the older versions, > > > such that we really should all be using it exclusively anyway. > > > > actually, i take it back, it's possible this is fixed. i edited > > /etc/sysconfig/nfs and uncommented all references to dropping support > > for NFS v2 and v3, and NFS seems to start. didn't used to, so maybe > > this issue has been resolved. > > > > once NFS is running, is there a convenient command to *show* me what > > versions of NFS are currently supported? > > > > rday > > rpcinfo -p :)
i tried that earlier but it still suggested i was supporting all of versions 2, 3 and 4, but perhaps i'm misinterpreting how to do this. more research would seem to be in order. feel free to mess with the contents of /etc/sysconfig/nfs and report back any interesting observations. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================