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Mindmap. Usb. The Unofficial Samba HOWTO. Once long ago, there was a fancy buzzword with a complex history commonly referred to as DCE/RPC.

The Unofficial Samba HOWTO

This stood for Distributed Computing Environment/Remote Procedure Calls and conceptually was a good idea. Commissioned as a conceptual project by the Open Software Foundation, the goal was that programmers would be able to write software that would run across multiple computers without the need to worry about all the messy underlying network code to make it work. When there was a need to run it over TCP so that it would be compatible with Digital Equipment Corporation’s suite of network protocols, it was redesigned, re-submitted and officially became known as DCE/RPC. Microsoft came along and decided, rather than pay $20 per seat to license this new technology, to re-implement and rebrand DCE/RPC as MS-RPC (Microsoft Remote Procedure Call). Install multiple versions of IE on your PC.