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Newer page: version 6 Last edited on Saturday, October 4, 2003 12:38:16 pm by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
Older page: version 4 Last edited on Saturday, May 31, 2003 3:54:11 pm by SamJansen Revert
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 !!I can't mount stuff! 
 Did you remove rpc.statd(8), portmap(8) or other critical SUN RPC stuff? :) 
  
  
-"When setting up IPTABLES firewalling for Linux systems running the NFS service (network file system), you hit the problem that some of the TCP/IP and UDP ports used by components of the service are randomly generated as part of the SunRPC mechanism. This HOWTO document is part of the LinWiz tool kit, and describes how to set up NFS on your server in such a way that meaningful IPTABLES firewall rules can be applied to the system." 
+"When setting up IPTABLES firewalling for Linux systems running the NFS service (network file system), you hit the problem that some of the TCP/IP and UDP ports used by components of the service are randomly generated as part of the SunRPC mechanism. This HOWTO document is part of the ! LinWiz tool kit, and describes how to set up NFS on your server in such a way that meaningful IPTABLES firewall rules can be applied to the system." 
  
 !!Where did portmap go? 
  
 If you are setting up nfs on FreeBSD 5.0 or later and wonder where the portmap utility went, it has been renamed rpcbind. 
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+!!I'm mounting an export, and files are created as "nobody"  
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+Try adding the no_all_squash option to the export in question in /etc/exports. Note, your uid/gids should be the same on the two boxes.