NFS

[Arthur H. Johnson II]

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 16:31 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 04:26:16PM -0400, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote:
> > I made a really dumb mistake at home when setting up an NFS server.  Its
> > been several years since I've set up NFS, so I fergot one big key.  I
> > fergot to install portmap on the client workstations.  An hour later,
> > apt-get install portmap, and now everything is working great.
> 
> Do we know why portmap isn't a dependency for the NFS
> package? Offhand, I don't, and I'd be curious to know.
> 
Portmap is a dependency on nfs-kernel-server, that however didn't help
the NFS clients.

Of course, if I installed nfs-common on the client machines, I probably
would have saved me time.


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Arthur H. Johnson II <arthur at johnsonfamilymi.us>