File Sharing ~ Firewall

[Major.Mikey]

how do you turn the firewall off?

On Sunday 07 August 2005 09:37 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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