From 967872ee8fdb4352ba9ca20301ccb2474acb8532 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Schneider Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 12:46:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] WHATSNEW: Describe changes to the dynamic RPC port range Signed-off-by: Andreas Schneider --- WHATSNEW.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 43c52001b18..81183e5adfa 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -44,6 +44,17 @@ configured as the default backend. To avoid problems in future we advise all users to run 'testparm' after changing the smb.conf file! +Dynamic RPC port range +====================== + +The default port range for RPC services which use dynamically assigned ports has +changed in this release. Before we used 1024-1300 as the port range. Microsoft +defined a new port for RPC services with Windows Server 2008. The new default +port range is now: 49152-65535. + +Normally firewalls are configured to allow this port range so we want to use +same. You can use the smb.conf option 'rpc server dynamic port range' to change +the range and set it back to the old default of: 1024-1300. NEW FEATURES/CHANGES ==================== -- 2.11.0