On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Sian Mountbatten <[email protected]> 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 So has it been superseded?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rpcbind has superseded portmap because it adds ipv6 support by using a new rpc library rather than glibc's ipv4-only rpc support. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SyKe+02xyd0TSScYLaTPq2=yqwb0zqpmuxr63qxmaa...@mail.gmail.com

