nfs on 17.04

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Tom H wrote:
> Little Girl wrote:
> > Shameless plug:
> >
> > https://mostlylinux.wordpress.com/network/nfshowto/
 
> :)
> 
> A much better howto than the official documentation!

Thanks.
 
> 1) "sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server nfs-common rpcbind":
> 
> "sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server" is enough because
> "nfs-kernel-server" depends on "nfs-common" and "nfs-common" depends
> on "rpcbind", so the latter two will be installed with the first
> command and because then the latter two will be marked as installed
> automatically and be removed or be marked for removal if/when you
> remove "nfs-kernel-server".

Interesting. I never bothered to check that. Sloppy of me. It's fixed
now, and the comment for that step now lets the user know those other
two will be automatically installed.

> 2)  "sudo dpkg-reconfigure rpcbind":
 
> This doesn't do anything
 
> root at localhost ~ # grep rpcbind /var/cache/debconf/*
> root at localhost ~ #

I suspected as much, but wasn't sure. It's removed now.
 
> 3) "kdesudo ..." and "gksudo ...":
 
> You'll have to keep an eye on future releases because, once they
> default on Wayland, this won't be possible - unless Ubuntu sets up
> the polkit infrastructure to do so.

Okay. Thanks for the heads up.
 
> 4) "sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart"
 
> "sudo service nfs-kernel-server restart" so as not to inject any
> envvars into the nfs server.

Thanks. It's fixed now.

I also fixed these in the NFS Use Case page, which is a sister page
to that one and shows a real world example of NFS in use.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.