What ports need to be forwarded for NFS to work?

[Craig Hagerman]

On 9/8/07, David Vincent <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca> wrote:>
> It is possible that your ISP is blocking those ports making it
> impossible for you to get it working even if you have the config setup
> properly.

No, my ISP doesn't block anything. I was able to use NFS from outside
before I got the router I am presently using.


>
> But as others have already said - don't do this, look at setting up a
> VPN (OpenVPN!) to encrypt your traffic or use sshfs.

OK - I don't know about either of these methods and didn't know it was
inherently unsafe to use NFS from outside a LAN. Can I use NFS with
VPN? It is imperative that I use NFS. Is there any benefit to using
either VPN or ssh?