NFS connection refused

Question

I want to set up a filesharing server with NFS. But when I want to show the conetnts of export I get this:

manuel@server ~ $ showmount
clnt_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - Unable to receive: errno 111 (Connection refused)

What is wrong with it?

Answer 1

Horribly I read about 5 Tutorials but in none of them was noted that the service rpcbind is needed.

For Debian

sudo service rpcbind start

does the trick.