Comment 12 for bug 40537

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 40537] Re: Openoffice.org2 cannot write to NFS files

Torbjørn Sund wrote:
> Open Office needs statd on the client machine to lock files. I solved
> the problem by installing nfs-common. Shouldn't that be installed by
> default? The documentation says "Use this package on any machine that
> uses NFS, either as client or server. Programs included: lockd, statd,
> showmount, nfsstat, gssd and idmapd."
>

If installing this would not open up any ports or cause any daemons to
run by default, then we should consider it.

Mark