[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.

I will take your suggestion to IT.  Thank you.