[PLUG] NFS timed out

[Michael Ewan]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Anthony Schlemmer wrote:

> I believe that there are vulnerabilities related to NFS that allow an 
> intruder to gain access to a remote system. You might want to consider 
> using secure NFS via SSH tunnel for added security.
> 
> Tony
>  
> On Wednesday 17 April 2002 18:46 pm, you wrote:
> > Rich Shepard's Log: StarDate 0417.1657:
> > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Bruce Kingsland wrote:
> > > > This is the same error I get on my systems at home, which implies
> > > > to me that I have got things correctly configured on the server
> > > > side. Any ideas on what's wrong on the client side?
> > >
> > >   When I had RPC problems here it almost always was resolved by
> > > restarting the network on the uncooperative machine.
> >
> > Tried that, no help. Found out that if I shutdown the firewall on my
> > laptop, NFS works.
> >
> > Now to figger out the best balance of services and protections.
> >


Try turning the firewall back on then opening UDP/2049 and see if that 
works.

ME