Re: NFS ports?

[Aldo Foot <lunixer gmail com>]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Bob Goodwin<bobgoodwin wildblue net> wrote:
>
>   It appears to me that NFS requires ports 111 and 2049, both of which
>   I have opened in the firewall via firestarter.  But that doesn't
>   seem to be enough, after struggling to make a connection  it also
>   needed some high numbered ports, right now, 43509, but that changes
>   from time to time. I have to keep checking the firestarter events
>   log on both the server and client to see what needs to be opened. I
>   usually block by defaullt and open only the ports needed. Perhaps
>   that wont work with NFS?
>
>   If anyone can offer some suggestion I would appreciate it.
>
>   Bob

Read the source[1] and eSearch for "nfs static ports". You'll
get your answer by the time you're done reading.

[1] http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s2-sysconfig-nfs.html

The key file is /etc/sysconfig/nfs.

~af