Samba vs. NFS

[Matthew Zimmerman]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:30:37AM -0800, Preston Crawford wrote:
> I ended up going with Samba because I couldn't figure out how to
> open up my firewall (yes, I use a firewall on my desktop even though
> I'm behind one of those D-Link cable modem routers) to open ports
> correctly to let NFS through. I'm not sure what's worse. To turn off
> my firewall completely or to use Samba because getting it to work
> through my firewall was easier.

Running NFS through iptables can be done-- you basically reconfigure
the RPC services to use specified ports rather than going through the
portmapper. There's a good tutorial here:

http://www.lowth.com/LinWiz/nfs_help.html

-- 
      Matt

      Matthew Zimmerman
      Interdisciplinary Biophysics, University of Virginia
      http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mdz4c/