On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:02:38 -0600 (CST), Damian Menscher said: > > 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? -- Andrew