On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:45 PM Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:
> On 8/28/19 6:32 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 11:55 AM Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:
>>> On 8/28/19 5:44 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:52 PM Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The easiest way to resolve the issue is to place the interface on
>>>>> the NFS server in the "Trusted" firewall zone. The setting for
>>>>> that can be found in the Network Manager GUI for that interface
>>>>> in the "General Configuration" tab. At least that is what is
>>>>> shown on my KDE system.
>>>>
>>>> Doesn't that essentially disable the firewall?!
>>>
>>> To an extent. But recall that's Bob's network is connected to a
>>> satellite service and already protected by a firewall. I think he
>>> needs more protection against his family consuming his data quota.
>>> :-)
>>
>> :)
>>
>> The problem's that if someone does so on a laptop at home and then
>> uses a public network...
>
> I don't think that is too much of a worry.
>
> Recall that each Wifi Connection can be assigned a Firewall Zone.
> The connection at home will be different than outside of the home.
>>
>> Whether using "trusted" or adding "nfs" to "home", I suppose that the
>> solution is to remember to change to "public" when using a public
>> network; in the same way way that you'd want to block 111 and 2049
>> when doing so, whether via firewalld, iptables, nftables, or another
>> frontend to the latter two, if they are enabled on a non-public
>> network.
>>
>> It'd be nice to have a way to associate a network and a zone and not
>> have to remember easily-forgettable things. Given that NM and
>> firewalld haven't done this integration, it's probably less than
>> trivial, at least time-wise if not coding-wise.
>
> It seems integration has been done with Wifi (see above) but not with wired 
> connections.

Thanks. I must've missed the introduction of that feature! Stupid me...

You can now have "ZONE=" in "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*"
or "zone=" in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/*". Cool.


> In any event, I've never had a need or even considered running an NFS server 
> on a laptop. :-)

I used to use it when I went to a company and needed to share out some
files that I needed for configuration or installation.
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