[Samba] Question about the witness service
Leszek Szczepanowski
twinsen at mspanc.net
Wed Jan 22 15:53:28 UTC 2025
Hi,
I just want to ask a question related to this part of Samba Wiki:
"In order to activate the witness service "rpc start on demand helpers =
no" needs to be configured in the global section. At the same time the
'samba-dcerpcd' service needs to be started explicitly, typically with the
'--libexec-rpcds' option in order to make all available services usable.
One important aspect is that tcp ports 135 (for the endpoint mapper) and
various ports in the 'rpc server dynamic port range' will be used to
provide the witness service (rpcd_witness).
ctdb provides a '47.samba-dcerpcd.script' in order to manage the
samba-dcerpcd.service. Typically as systemd service, but that's up to the
packager and/or admin."
I would like to ask whether this protocol and its supporting components
will ever become the default option, meaning that it won’t need to be
started separately, and whether a systemd unit will be available across
different distributions? I had to create my own systemd file to start it
with the option I needed. What are the general plans for this protocol, and
is there anything else that might be implemented or improved? Just asking
out of curiosity :)
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Leszek A. Szczepanowski
twinsen at mspanc.net
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