"Fred J. Bourgeois, III" <fjb3@bonzo.sbcglobal.net> writes:

>Nevermind. smserverd is the media management server. I disable that
>from way back because it was buggy (in SunOS 5.6). Maybe it is fixed
>now? Anyway, if you don't need to manage removeable media via RPC then
>disable it.

The service did not exist in Solaris 2.6; it was introduced in
Solaris 9.

You don't "manage removable media via RPC"; rpc.smserverd is an
internal service used by vold. You can only disable it if you
also disable vold as the latter does not work without it.

Casper
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