I haven't actually tried doing this, so I'm guessing a bit here (despite your fairly complete report this time) ... but the rpc portmapper will need to communicate to do the NFS mount. It listens on port 111 (TCP, I think). Your firewall probably blocks port 111 coming in and surely doesn't port-forward it to your inside NFS server.
Then, I'm not sure what "opened a udp port 2049" means, exactly. Since this is an outside machine coming in, you'll need both to open and to port-forward it. Finally, how long is "a long time"? If about 3 minutes, check once again for a DNS problem ... is the remote mount command using the right FQDN for your changed setup? Aside from that ... have you thought through the security implications of this setup? I haven't, but it feels risky to me. At 07:36 PM 1/28/02 -0500, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: >Hello All, > >I have been trying, with no luck so fat to mount a directory from a >machine that I have behind the Eigerstein LRP to a client machine >outside the firewall. > >I have opened a udp port 2049 which is supposed to be for nfs, but >still I cannot seem to mount the server directory even though I can >mount the server directory to other machines that are also inside the >firewall. > >When I issue the mount command on the external client it just times >out after a long time. > >Does anyone have some idea? > >I would give more specific details, but I am not getting any >information from the logs or on the command prompt. -- ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
