[lug] NFS on Debian Jessie

[Gary Hodges - NOAA Affiliate]

On 12/07/2016 10:42 AM, Zan Lynx wrote:
> On 12/07/2016 10:00 AM, Gary Hodges - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
>
>>
>> user at machine:~$ ps -ef |grep statd
>> statd      401     1  0 09:57 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/rpc.statd
>> statd      886     1  0 09:57 ?        00:00:00 rpc.statd --no-notify
>>
>> So it seems all should be good, but it's not.
>
> Test with the firewall on the NFS server completely disabled. Make sure
> that its iptables rules are all flushed and set to default ALLOW.
>
> If that works, it means you'll need to find the documentation for Debian
> (I found it for Redhat but that won't help you) for how to force the
> service ports to fixed port numbers and how to set persistent firewall
> rules to allow those ports.
>
> NFS was designed in an age before firewalls and by default its RPC
> system uses random port numbers which are picked by the port mapper.
> This was also an age before every service ran on port 80.

IT believes it highly unlikely the issue is on the server end.  They 
have tested three other machines without issue.  That would make sense 
since my desktop machine, also Deb Jessie on the same subnet, worked 
out-of-the-box.

Gary