Re: how to keep portmap from running?
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 04:21:13PM +0000, Pollywog wrote:
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> On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:02:38 -0600 (CST), Damian Menscher said:
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> >
> > Portmapper maps the RPC services to ports. The list of services it
> > deals with are listed in /etc/rpc. Most of them deal with clustered
> > computing, so you'll need to run portmap if you're using nfs, yp, or (I
> > think) trying to do a beowulf-type setup. Otherwise, you probably don't
> > need it. You could try doing a `rpcinfo -p localhost` to find out what
> > your computer is making available.
>
> Is it needed for Samba servers?
Nope.
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