System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

How to Mount an NFS File System Through a Firewall

  1. Become superuser or assume an equivalent role.

    For information about roles, see “Using Privileged Applications” in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

  2. Manually mount the file system, by using a command such as the following:


    # mount -F nfs -o public bee:/export/share/local /mnt
    

    In this example, the file system /export/share/local is mounted on the local client by using the public file handle. An NFS URL can be used instead of the standard path name. If the public file handle is not supported by the server bee, the mount operation fails.


    Note –

    This procedure requires that the file system on the NFS server be shared by using the public option. Additionally, any firewalls between the client and the server must allow TCP connections on port 2049. Starting with the 2.6 release, all file systems that are shared allow for public file handle access, so the public option is applied by default.