firewall hell...

[Matthew Gillen]

On 11/11/2010 02:29 PM, Stephen Adler wrote:
> I'm using NFS. I allowed NFS4 in the firewall configuration application 
> but that still didn't allow the autofs mechanism to work. I didn't do 
> anything to configure what kind of nfs I'm running, all I did was enable 
> nfs via 'chkconfig nfs on' and 'nfs start'.

It's not clear which machine is Fedora 14.  Client, server or both?
If when it works with the firewall down, run
 cat /proc/mounts
on the client and verify that the NFS version is actually 4.  If it's 3,
then there's a lot more you need to do.

Matt

> 
> Cheers.
> 
> On 11/11/2010 01:21 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
>> On 11/11/2010 12:57 PM, Stephen Adler wrote:
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>> I've fired up fedora 14 and I use autofs on my systems. (I have a rather
>>> elaborate home network/system setup...) Does anyone now what fire wall
>>> (iptable) rules I need to add so that autofs works? If I shutdown the
>>> firewall, the autofs mounts work fine. I spent about 1/2 hr doing google
>>> searches and came up empty....
>> I don't think there is anything that autofs itself needs.  What are your
>> automounts using for the fstype?  NFS?  SMB?
>>
>> Could be a problem if you're using NFS over udp (tcp is the default, and
>> will work with default firewall rules).