[lug] NFS on Debian Jessie

[Lee Woodworth]

Maybe info from man rpc.statd and/or rpc.nfsd will help.

e.g. synopsis for rpc.statd:

rpc.statd [-dh?FLNvV] [-H prog] [-n my-name] [-o outgoing-port]
          [-p listener-port] [-P path]
          [--nlm-port port] [--nlm-udp-port port]


On 12/07/2016 10:48 AM, Gary Hodges - NOAA Affiliate wrote:
> 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.
> 
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