Subject: Re: Problems with NFS: Port mapper failure
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: David S. <davids@idiom.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/16/2002 13:46:05
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:25:09PM +0200, Daniel Eggert wrote:
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> I figured out, that it's a problem with ipfilter. How should i configre 
> ipfilter to let clients connect to the NFS server?

'rpcinfo -p <file server>' will show you the ports used by 'portmapper', 
'nfs', 'mountd', 'status', and 'nlockmgr'.  You're clients need access to
all of them.  The ports for 'portmapper' (111) and 'nfs' (2049) are 
constant.  The others in general aren't.  Change your '/etc/exports' or
stop and re-start the daemons, and those ports will change.  But it's
been my experience on NetBSD that once '/etc/exports' is fixed, the
ports used by 'mountd', 'status', and 'nlockmgr' will also stay fixed.
But that not the case on other systems, like Linux.

David S.

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