[Announce] Samba 3.6.0rc1 Available for Download

[Andreas Schneider]

On Tuesday 17 May 2011 15:54:12 Michael Wood wrote:
> > Endpoint Mapper
> > ---------------
> > 
> > As Microsoft is more and more relying on endpoint mapper and we didn't
> > have a complete implementation we decided to create an instance for
> > Samba. The endpoint mapper is like a DNS server but for ports. If you
> > want to talk to a certain RPC service over TCP/IP, you just ask the
> > endpoint mapper on which port it is running. Then you can connect to the
> > service and make sure that it is running.
> > The code is deactivated by default, because it needs more testing and it
> > doesn't scale yet. We will work on these limitations and hopefully
> > release it with pre3. If you want to enable and test the endpoint mapper
> > you can set "rpc_server:epmapper = daemon" in the smb.conf file.
> 
> Since pre3 has come and gone, perhaps this note should be updated?

That's right. Karolin, could you please change it to:

The code is deactivated by default, because it needs more testing and it 
doesn't scale yet. If you want to enable and test the endpoint mapper
you can set "rpc_server:epmapper = daemon" in the smb.conf file.


Thanks,


	-- andreas

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