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Bailando

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2013-08-19

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How to make NFS share from a shared IP address?

I have a VPS (Virtual server) and I made NFS shares to share directories between my machine and the VPS. It was no problem to make NFS shares on the VPS and accessing them from my home machine, I followed the tutorial on here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NFS

However when I tried to make NFS shares on my home machine and access them from the VPS I got this error message:

showmount -e XX.XX.109.198
clnt_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - Unable to receive: errno 111 (Connection refused)

Maybe this is why I have a shared IP address which belongs to a whole village and there is somewhere a router between my home machine and the VPS. What can I do to make NFS shares working in both direction?

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Re: How to make NFS share from a shared IP address?

You'll need to forward the port. Can you ssh your home machine from the VPS? I doubt that, though.