nfs-kernel-server and portmap

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 03:36:40PM +0200, Sean Legassick wrote:

> I'm currently running Warty, so ignore me if this has already been 
> changed for Hoary...
> 
> I just installed nfs-kernel-server, and had to a little poking to work 
> out that it wasn't working because portmap was still configured to bind 
> only to the loopback interface. This was simple enough to change once 
> I'd worked it out, but as these are Ubuntu-supported packages I wonder 
> if there is a way to automate this.
> 
> I guess you could argue that anyone that wants to expose NFS shares 
> should understand this stuff anyway, but I certainly don't see why you 
> would install an NFS server without wanting to expose the shares beyond 
> localhost...

This is answered in the FAQ, but yes, it's less than ideal.

The solution for Hoary is that, since we won't be shipping fam anymore, we
don't need to include portmap in the default desktop install, and so it can
be configured to listen on all interfaces by default (since the user will
only install it if they really want it).

> (I'm also learning about the Debian packaging system - having come from 
> non-Debian distros - and am curious in general to know if there's an 
> elegant approach to this kind of need to reconfigure another package?)

There are a few common solutions for this type of problem, but fortunately I
think we can avoid them all for Hoary.

-- 
 - mdz