Re: NFS portmap - is it really needed and if so where is it?
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Sian Mountbatten
<poenikatu@fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I is trying to set up NFS for my LAN. The NFS-HOWTO says that portmap,
> usually resident in /sbin or /usr/sbin, is essential as it has to be
> started first. Well, I don't have it and it does not appear in the
> Contents-i386.gz for sid on ftp.uk.debian.org.
>
> So has it been superseded? What do I need to get my NFS server working?
rpcbind has superseded portmap because it adds ipv6 support by using a
new rpc library rather than glibc's ipv4-only rpc support.
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