nfs on 17.04

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Tom H wrote:

> > Thanks.
 
> You're welcome. Maybe you should "spring clean" your "samba" page to
> bring it up to this level if you're in the mood for extra work :)

It will have to wait. My four-day weekend is over.
 
> >> 2) "sudo dpkg-reconfigure rpcbind":
> >
> >> This doesn't do anything
> >
> >> root at localhost ~ # grep rpcbind /var/cache/debconf/*
> >> root at localhost ~ #
> >
> > I suspected as much, but wasn't sure. It's removed now.
> 
> IIRC, "sudo dpkg-reconfigure portmap" used to work.

I never actually saw it do anything, but I figured there was no harm
in running it, so I left it in for quite some time.
 
> >> 3) "kdesudo ..." and "gksudo ...":
> >>
> >> You'll have to keep an eye on future releases because, once they
> >> default on Wayland, this won't be possible - unless Ubuntu sets
> >> up the polkit infrastructure to do so.
> >
> > Okay. Thanks for the heads up.
> 
> I expect that Ubuntu'll try to make it work with wayland; it's
> having to adapt synaptic (it may already have done so for synaptic;
> I'm not using wayland and I've never used synaptic).

Even if it doesn't, it will use something else, right? Or are they
doing away with password access?

> I'd forgotten one thing in my previous email.
> 
> AFAIR (it's been a while since I've used tecwrappers), there's no
> point in setting up "/etc/hosts.{allow,deny}" on the client system;
> but it doesn't do any harm given that it'll be a no-op.

I feel much better having that set up, and, in our case, each of our
machines is a client and a host, and I suspect that's often the case
with NFS.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.