Re: mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

[Keith Roberts <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Boris Epstein wrote:

> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> From: Boris Epstein <borepstein@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re:  mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS
>      X machine
> 
>>
>> Is the OS X firewall blocking nfs?
>>
>> How are you mounting the export? If you're not trying it from within
>> Terminal, does it work from within it?
>> ______________________________________________
>
> The OS X firewall dos not appear to be a factor. Actually it works
> just fine when I turn off the firewall on the CentOS end.
>
> Could it be that even when I am trying to mount over the TCP the NFS
> client on the Mac OS X side still tried to connect to some UDP port? I
> am asking that because everyone else mounts just fine with the
> firewall up on the server end.

Hi Boris. For any network connectivity problems, I'd 
recommend using wireshark. It's in the Centos updates repo. 
Just try 'yum info wireshark*' Running that will enable you 
pinpoint what your network problem is.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Websites:
http://www.karsites.net
http://www.php-debuggers.net
http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk

All email addresses are challenge-response protected with
TMDA [http://tmda.net]
-----------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos