I was setting up NFS for VMware on Scientific Linux https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/setting-up-an-nfs-server-and-client-on-centos-7/ ) and everything worked except for the firewall: Code: firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=nfs firewall-cmd --reload The command ran and seems to have worked, I even added ports 111 and 2049 manually, but I can not mount the NFS if firewalld is running. as soon as I stop firewalld, then NFS mounts on ESXi. Any ideas? -J