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 :) -- -- Leszek A. Szczepanowski twinsen at mspanc.net