NFS trouble

[Tracy R Reed]

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:47:21PM -0700, Gregory K. Ade spake thusly:
> Make sure you have portmap installed on the client machine.  I don't
> know how Redhat's scripts work, but I've found that portmap needs to be
> running on the client machine in order to mount NFS volumes.  Once
> mounted, portmap is no longer needed.

I ran into this problem just yesterday. I've always been confused on where
portmap needs to be running. It only needs to be running when the client
mounts the volumes. In Redhat, the netfs init script starts portmap,
mounts the volumes, and then stops portmap. So that's probably the best
way to go.

> If you're doing anything with automounts, though, you'll need to keep
> portmap running full time.

And as portmap is a security problem, it is preferable not to run it full
time. Even if you have it blocked in hosts.deny.

-- 
Tracy Reed      http://www.ultraviolet.org
Last week I left two Windows XP CD's on my dashboard in plain view.
Someone broke into my car and left two more.
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