File Sharing

Kevin Brown kevin_brown at qwest.net
Sun Aug 7 21:52:13 MST 2005


> *nix file sharing (aka NFS) works best and easiest between machines that 
> are NOT running individual firewalls. In that case they MUST have a 
> really good firewall machine sitting between them and the net.
> 
> AAMOF, if someone knows of a simple tutorial on how to configure a Linux 
> box's firewall to allow NFS traffic but block just about everything 
> else, I'd REALLY like a pointer to it. The only times I've gotten NFS to 
> work, it was on boxen with firewalls off. In that case, it's dirt 
> simple--but you gotta be behind a really tight firewall box.

one quick google search...
http://librenix.com/?inode=3081


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