Description of problem: Due to random ports assignments one has to practically open all ports in a firewall between machines talking NFS. Some of components involved can be asked to use fixed ports in /etc/sysconfig/ files but not all of them. Instead of a long description of troubles and remedies here I'd rather refer to http://www.lowth.com/LinWiz/nfs_help.html which does that better than I would. :-) Some words on the subject in release notes and/or docs also would be nice. Yes, I know unofficial readings of "NFS" acronym. Still... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 97680 [details] Patch to the nfslock /etc/init.d start up script to improve firewall interation. This patch adds to /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfslock the ability for statd to pick up a port number from /etc/sysconfig/nfs in the same way that mountd can. This is helpful for use with firewalls.