On Fri, 2 May 2003, Preston de Guise wrote:

>
> > > On a single-CPU RedHat 9 2.4.20-9/i686 test machine, both
> > NetWorker 6.1.3
> > > and 7.0 fail all network operations (save, nsrwatch) with the error
> > >
> > >    *** Server unavailable: Unable to receive
> > >
>
> Looks like a problem a customer of mine had when they went to a newer
> version of RedHat and put in the firewall/ipchains stuff that RedHat
> offers as part of the default installs now.
>
> Could this be your problem?
>
> I.e., make sure you can do such things as "rpcinfo -p rh9machine" from
> the server.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Preston.
>
>
>
>
I found that even on our system 8 machine I had to add the following
to /etc/sysconfig/iptables   (client):

# next 3 are for networker
-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 7937 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 7938 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT
-A input -s 0/0 -d 0/0 7939 -p udp -j ACCEPT

                                        Matt Temple
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