File Sharing

[Mark Jarvis]

Thanks to Kevin & George. I'll keep your solutions handy.

Thanks again!

-mj-

george at georgetoft.com wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> 
> I got NFS server to work behind a firewall (iptables) by forcing NFS to
> always listen and respond on a specific port.
> 
> from the init script:
> startproc /usr/sbin/rpc.mountd -P 960 $PARAMS
> 
> 
> Then I set up a rule:
> # Insert the IP address of each client you want to export NFS to
> # separated with spaces
> NFS_EXPORT="10.0.1.10 10.0.1.11 10.0.1.13 10.0.1.201"
> for NFS_IP in $NFS_EXPORT; do
>         ### RPC & NFS
>         # SUN-RPC
>         $IPTABLES -A INPUT -s $NFS_IP -p tcp --dport 111 -j ACCEPT
>         $IPTABLES -A INPUT -s $NFS_IP -p udp --dport 111 -j ACCEPT
>         # Userspace NFS
>         $IPTABLES -A INPUT -s $NFS_IP -p tcp --dport 2049 -j ACCEPT
>         $IPTABLES -A INPUT -s $NFS_IP -p udp --dport 2049 -j ACCEPT
>         # mountd & ugidd
>         $IPTABLES -A INPUT -s $NFS_IP -p tcp --dport 960 -j ACCEPT
>         $IPTABLES -A INPUT -s $NFS_IP -p udp --dport 960 -j ACCEPT
> done
> 
> HTH
> 
> George
> 
> 
> On Sun, August 7, 2005 9:37 pm, Mark Jarvis wrote:
> 
>>*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.
>>
>>-mj-
>>
>>Craig White wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 01:47 -0700, Glitch wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hello All,
>>>>
>>>> I could really use some help with some networking stuff. I have a
>>>>couple of Linux computers on a network together but don't know how to
>>>>make them see each other. What I need is the equal to drive mapping in
>>>>windows. I think that I might be able to do this through NFS but I am
>>>>not even sure how. So please any input on the issue would be great. I
>>>>am trying to connect two PC's running Suse 9.3. Both computers have
>>>>routable IP addresses and I cannot through SSH and FTP without issue
>>>>just need something more like network file access.
>>>>
>>>
>>>-----
>>>SuSE may have some 'how-to' on NFS and networking issues.
>>>
>>>You probably have to consider firewall can block stuff so if you have
>>>these computers on the same network, try to make this work with the
>>>firewall settings off on the computers at first.
>>>
>>>Now for the 'how-tos' - always check tldp.org (the linux documentation
>>>project)
>>>
>>>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html/
>>>
>>>see the 'networking' and 'NFS' how-tos
>>>
>>>Craig
>>>
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