nfs on 17.04

[Tom H]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:22 AM, R Kimber
<richardkimber at politicsresources.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:15:06 -0400 Tom H wrote:
>>
>> In this case you need access to the port on which mountd is running, not
>> 111.
>>
>> If this is on a lan, it's not insecure - especially if you're limiting
>> access to one ip address as you seem to be.
>
> OK. It's all working now, and I understand the problem much better. Many
> thanks

I don't quite understand how but you're welcome :)

I've just had a chance to look at the links that you'd first posted.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpNFSHowTo

is a mess. All of the "portmap" instances should be changed to
"rpcbind" or some should be changed to "portmapper" and others (like
"sudo service portmap restart") to "rpcbind".

FYI, rpcbind replaced portmap when the glibc-supplied libraries were
replaced by tirpc-supplied ones. One of the advantages was ipv6
compatibility. Also, IIRC, glibc didn't want to keep on maintaining
sunrpc.