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Re: [PLUG] portmapper and NFS.
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Hi
SAMBA - Imitation of IBM/Microsoft NETBIOS.
They have something similiar to RPC "Datagram Service)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBIOS.
The difference between SAMBA vs NFS boils down to which camp you are
in.
With regards
Antony
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 16:21 -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
> hehe, thanks for the explaining.
>
> I guess I should now ask, why doesn't SAMBA need a RPC?
>
>
>
> On 7/9/07, Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 10:02:28AM -0400, Mag Gam said:
> > I am trying to understand the technical details why we need
> portmapper(RPC)
> > for NFS.
> > I have been reading, "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmap";
> >
> > Does anyone know exactly what this service does, and the
> importance of it
> > for NFS? I know NFSV4 does not need Portmapper, so why does
> NFS Version 3
> > and 2 need it?
>
> NFSv3 services by default does not listen on a regularly
> assigned port -
> they ask the OS at startup for a random port, and then listen
> on it.
> portmapper exists to translate RPC call requests into port
> numbers.
> This way, when one machine needs to know how to do an RPC call
> to, fo
> instance, figure out the files in a directory, the application
> talks to
> portmapper, which figures out what port the relevant service
> is on, and
> then network traffic can happen. It does seem a bit arcane to
> me as
> well.
> --
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