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March 8th 13, 04:42 PM
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RPC settings
I'm puzzled by a couple of things when I open the Services dialog for
Remote Procedure Call (RPC). 1. Why are these settings greyed out? It means I could not Start/Stop the service if needed for some troubleshooting reason. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/RPC...ngs-Greyed.jpg 2. Why is this and the RPC Locator the only services not set to Local System? https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/RPC...Settings-1.jpg 3. I changed it to Local System by way of experiment but then couldn't change it back. Had to do an SR. But even if the boxes weren't greyed out, I wouldn't have a clue what password has been used. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/RPC-Settings-1.jpg Any advice or insight would be appreciated please. -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK 
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March 10th 13, 09:13 AM
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Terry Pinnell wrote:
I'm puzzled by a couple of things when I open the Services dialog for Remote Procedure Call (RPC). 1. Why are these settings greyed out? It means I could not Start/Stop the service if needed for some troubleshooting reason. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/RPC...ngs-Greyed.jpg 2. Why is this and the RPC Locator the only services not set to Local System? https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/RPC...Settings-1.jpg 3. I changed it to Local System by way of experiment but then couldn't change it back. Had to do an SR. But even if the boxes weren't greyed out, I wouldn't have a clue what password has been used. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/RPC-Settings-1.jpg Any advice or insight would be appreciated please. I hadn't noticed that before. My RPC is greyed out as well. Notice that on "failure", it is set to "Reboot System". Which would be a good reason for not turning it off. A great many other services rely on RPC. It sounds like they decided it would be a Bad Idea to turn it off. (RPC would be a part of just about any client-server type software. RPC gives location independence, and you don't care whether the service you're talking to is on LocalHost (127.0.0.1) or on some other computer. Even if the network cable is unplugged, pieces of software on your computer talk to one another using RPC.) "How RPC Works" [I suspect, not a complete story...] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...=WS.10%29.aspx The Locator doesn't appear to be nearly as critical, as its recovery procedure isn't set to "Reboot System". And not many things rely on Locator, whereas a great many things need a Remote Procedure Call, in order to work. Paul
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March 11th 13, 12:50 PM
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Paul wrote:
Terry Pinnell wrote: I'm puzzled by a couple of things when I open the Services dialog for Remote Procedure Call (RPC). 1. Why are these settings greyed out? It means I could not Start/Stop the service if needed for some troubleshooting reason. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/RPC...ngs-Greyed.jpg 2. Why is this and the RPC Locator the only services not set to Local System? https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/RPC...Settings-1.jpg 3. I changed it to Local System by way of experiment but then couldn't change it back. Had to do an SR. But even if the boxes weren't greyed out, I wouldn't have a clue what password has been used. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4019461/RPC-Settings-1.jpg Any advice or insight would be appreciated please. I hadn't noticed that before. My RPC is greyed out as well. Notice that on "failure", it is set to "Reboot System". Which would be a good reason for not turning it off. A great many other services rely on RPC. It sounds like they decided it would be a Bad Idea to turn it off. (RPC would be a part of just about any client-server type software. RPC gives location independence, and you don't care whether the service you're talking to is on LocalHost (127.0.0.1) or on some other computer. Even if the network cable is unplugged, pieces of software on your computer talk to one another using RPC.) "How RPC Works" [I suspect, not a complete story...] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...=WS.10%29.aspx The Locator doesn't appear to be nearly as critical, as its recovery procedure isn't set to "Reboot System". And not many things rely on Locator, whereas a great many things need a Remote Procedure Call, in order to work. Paul Thanks, Paul, very helpful. -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK
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