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 So has it been superseded?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rpcbind has superseded portmap because it adds ipv6 support by using a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.


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