Mount drives between (2) Linux Machines... with a Firewall...

[Vince0000]

Hope you can help me out here...

I have come to the conclusion that NFS (Network File Sharing) is what I need to use to be able to mount / automount on startup my shares off my SuSE Linux PDC to my SuSE Linux Workstation... (I've read it has some security issues and isn't recommended either, so if there is an alternative please let me know...)

Anyway with firewall's "OFF" I can map the drive etc and it works fine so I know the problem is in my firewall that I's causing it to hang and fail.

I've opened ports 111 (PortMap) and 2049 (NFS) and I ran the rpcinfo -p to see what random port MountD has selected and opened that too but I still can't get it to connect.
Can anyone give me a hand in what other ports or how to specify a port for MOUNTD to use and open all the necessary ports for this to work.

Thank you very much in advance I would like to get this working.
Vince

 

[ericbrunson]

I don't know how to specify the port to mount.

Have you considered setting up a VPN between the firewalls and simply routing between your networks? If you open the ports successfully you'll be sending unencrypted NFS traffic over an untrusted network.

 

[Vince0000]

Thanks for the Reply...

I agree NFS is not to widely liked while trying to find out how to do it everyone steers away from it so I think I'll leave that as is...

VPN is something I would rather do and get familar with so I think I will start that research now instead.
Any pointers on where to start or a quick down and dirty if that's possible {smile}

Thanks,
Vince