Quote Originally Posted by james_fried View Post
Just had this exact problem - didn't have people telling me to use `sudo` though

Simple solution was to run `sudo dpkg-reconfigure portmap` and make sure that it wasn't loopbacked. A quick restart with `sudo /etc/init.d/portmap restart` then got NFS working just fine.

Hope that helps a googler.

J
Thank you!

yes arrived here via google and indeed
sudo dpkg-reconfigure portmap was indeed the setting that was causing the issue (ubuntu 10.10)
ironically in ubuntu 11.10 there was no need to run that command nfs ran fine right off the bat after install