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DCE/RPC Open Source Kick-Start

Posted by timothy on from the tradition-of-heritage dept.

lkcl writes: "DCE/RPC - the basis for DCOM, Windows NT Domains, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, a large chunk of Microsoft's MSDN APIs, has a new home. In combination with Samba TNG (not to be confused with Samba), dcerpc.net is the developer forum for Windows NT compatible DCE/RPC middleware. For more information on what DCE/RPC can do, see http://dcerpc.net/dcerpc.xvl and http://dcerpc.net/url. Sign up for an account, help end Microsoft's domination. None of this time-wasting browser stuff by the U.S. DoJ and none of this time-wasting multimedia stuff by the European Commission. Go for the *real* stuff - and help kick ass."

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  1. A couple of comments by Guy+Harris · · Score: 2
    The site doesn't say it's "for Windows NT compatible DCE/RPC middleware"; that's one place where DCE/RPC can be used, but DCE/RPC antedates Microsoft's heavy use of it.

    Also, the DCE/RPC information page at that site makes some inaccurate claims about Sun's ONC RPC:

    ONC/RPC is limited to using UDP

    Not true. Since Day One, it also supported TCP; the Sun TIRPC stuff (done for System V Release 4) also allows it to work on other transports - for example, during at least one Connectathon, testing of NFS and other ONC RPC-based services over OSI transport protocols (I forget whether they did only CLTP or CLTP and COTP) was done, as I remember.

    ONC/RPC's security is GSS/API

    Not true. ONC RPC does support other authentication flavors, although they're either weak ("none" and "system" authentication), have (I think) been broken (DES authentication) or use Kerberos V4 rather than V5 (Kerberos authentication), so the intent is, as I understand it, to move to GSS/API authentication.