Setting up NFS but no exportfs program - what to do?

[Larry Alkoff]

albi wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:58:21 -0500
> Larry Alkoff <labradley at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
>> Perhaps they have changed something in Badger 6.0.6.
>> I have no nfs-kernel-server in /etc/init.d.
>> There _is_ a nfs-common but looking at the script, 
>> I can't see that
>> has anything to do with exportfs.
> 
> i've just done the following on my ubuntu-dapper-desktop :
> 
> 1) sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server
> 
> 2) edited /etc/exports, inserted the following :
> 
> /home                   192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,async,no_wdelay)
> 
> 3) sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart
> 
> why don't you have /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server ?
> 
> # exportfs
> /home           192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0
> 
> # which exportfs
> /usr/sbin/exportfs
> 
> # dpkg -S /usr/sbin/exportfs
> nfs-kernel-server: /usr/sbin/exportfs
> 
> 

Well albi, I screwed up.

When I looked at installed packages using Synaptic, I mistakenly thought 
the package name with a picture of an red bell next to it meant it was 
installed.  Nope, that only means _supported_ and it's the black 
rectangle that counts.  My bad.

So I installed nfs-kernel-server and there is /sbin/exportfs just where 
it should be.

Sorry for the bother but thanks very much for your help.

-- 
Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX
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