Re: [newbie] NFS client: port-unreachable

[Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>]

>>>>> " " == Roland Kuhn <rkuhn@e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de> writes:

     > No, I have no port specific rules in the firewall (iptables),
     > but this machine does SNAT for 32 other linux boxes which also
     > get some directories from the same server (including YP). I had
     > some trouble with the YPSERV-calls until I bound two more IPs
     > to the network card and masqueraded the 32 boxes via these
     > additional addresses. What might happen is that the specific
     > port gets allocated by some port remapping in iptables during
     > the request, but I don't see why this should happen only for
     > specific directories (e.g. /home works and /compass doesn't
     > while both are from the same server).

Are /home and /compass on the same mount point on the client though? 
If not, then they won't share the same port.

IOW: they will only share the same port if you have '/' as the NFS
mountpoint.

Cheers,
  Trond