Stephen Gran on 9 Jul 2007 21:40:45 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] portmapper and NFS. 

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:21:29PM -0400, Mag Gam said:
> hehe, thanks for the explaining.
> 
> I guess I should now ask, why doesn't SAMBA need a RPC?

The smb protocol (which the samba project has painfully reverse
engineered) does use RPC.  The difference is that smb uses well known
ports, so there is no need for a map daemon.  nfsv4 also uses well known
ports for most things, so the need for portmapper is getting less and less.
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