Re: Need help for file sharing -- linux --> linux boxen

[C-Cose Masters <cmasters@nbnet.nb.ca>]

Greetings Nate,

On 04-05-03, nate transmitted the following;
% C-Cose Masters said:
% 
% > Is there any way that either portsentry or ipchains is interfering with
% > communication?
% 
% yes this is very likely
% 
Although likely, flushing my chains had no positive effect.

% >
% > I've attempted to install with portsentry stopped, but haven't yet tried
% > to alter my ~limited~ chains scripts.
% >
% > Also, while problem solving I've:
% >
% > 1	checked inetd.conf for RPC services and restarted it with them
% > 	commented out.
% > 	Result: no change
% 
% nfs-related RPC stuff runs standalone (/etc/init.d/nfs-common)
% 
% for now ipchains -F
% 
done ...

% and restart portmapper and nfs-common
% 
% /etc/init.d/portmap restart
% 
done .. with the following results:

pmap_getmaps rpc problem: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Broken pipe
Stopping portmap daemon: portmap.
Starting portmap daemon: portmap.

% /etc/init.d/nfs-common restart
% 
done ...

% run rpcinfo -p
% 
done ... again with negative results:

rpcinfo: can't contact portmapper: rpcinfo: RPC: Unable to receive;
errno = Connection reset by peer

% should work now..
% 
should ... but hasn't

% try starting the nfs server
% 
% then run your ipchains scripts again, you'll probably have to tune them,
% I recommend having most/all of your blocking rules tied to your external
% interface to make it cleaner (use the option -i eth0 in the ipchains
% command if eth0 is your external interface)
% 
I currently have all prohibitive scripts locked on to only my ppp0
(external) interface. All local traffic (LAN and lo) is fully allowed.

% nate

Any other help to offer Nate? This is really beginning to irk me, as
everything worked just jim-dandy with the potato nfs-server pkg. Silly
me didn't need it at the time so Purge it went.

C-Cose