Re: webnfs with AIX

From: Ian D. Bjorhovde (ianbjor_at_MOBILEAUDIO.COM)
Date: 08/22/04

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    Date:         Sat, 21 Aug 2004 20:29:33 -0700
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    Eric Hunter wrote:

    > I've read that if you want to run NFS across a firewall, you need to use
    > Suns Web NFS. According to the documentation on line, I see that AIX
    > above 4.2.1 is supposed to support Web NFS, but I cant find any example
    > of how it works with AIX.
    >
    > I see sun has a -public switch to mount, but this doesnt work on my AIX
    > 5.2 workstation.
    >
    > How do you share/mount/use webnfs under AIX?

    You can use NFS across a firewall just fine, without "web nfs" (I've
    never heard of this). The client needs access to port 2049 for NFS data,
    and port 111 for RPC traffic.

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