NFS question..

[Mark Street]

Man, that's some scary ass stuff you are doing there.  Lucky milo won't
accept the mount request.  There must be a better way.


On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Christopher Wagner wrote:

> I'm trying to set-up a NFS mount from my home computer to my database server
> at work for incremental backups.  I get this message on the Unixware 7.1.1
> box (database server):
> UX:nfs mount: ERROR: access denied for milo.waggie.net:/pac
>
> and this message on the Redhat Linux 7.3 box at home:
>
> Aug 20 17:02:57 milo rpc.mountd: refused mount request from
> leg-66-247-88-195-STK.sprinthome.com for /pac (/pac): illegal port 56726
>
> My /etc/exports on milo is:
> #
> /pac    66.247.88.195(rw)
>
> I'm running iptables on milo and the database server is behind a Netopia
> firewall product.  What do I need to open up on the firewalls to get this to
> work?  I already opened up 4069/udp (I think that's the one) on milo.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help provided!! :)