Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Locator

6 June 2000 by Snakefoot | Comment » | Trackback Off
Description:
Name service provider that maintains a database with available RPC services on the server, where local RPC services can register themselves. A client can then contact the RPC locator on the server to locate and access the wanted RPC service.

This service is used by IIS to register what computers available for remote administration.

Note after installing WinXP SP2 one might get the following error:

Event ID: 1000
RPC locator has encountered a problem and needs to be closed.

More Info MS KB Q904767


Recommended State:
Default State:
  • Manual
Process Name:
  • locator.exe (RpcLocator)
Supports:
  • None
Depends:

Updated: 23 September 2007

Comments:

Comment by Nitin - 12 August 2007 @ 23:58 Reply

Hi,
I am running an RPC based server and RPC based client on different machine (both system having Windows-XP Professional with service pack 2). The problem I am facing is client is not communicating with RPC Server. I have seen that RPC Server exports its information to name servide database(i.e. to local RPC Locator) but still client is not able to find location information about server from Name service. Can you please let me know what configuration I have to make in both systems to make it work? Whether it has to do any thing with RPC Locator?
Thanks in advance

Comment by Snakefoot - 13 August 2007 @ 8:55 Reply

Nitin
Can you please let me know what configuration I have to make in both systems to make it work?

Don’t have much experience with configuration of RPC communication for 3rd party products. I recommend that you find a developer forum or newsgroup where others are posting similar questions.

I have found these articles that describes some of the changes made to RPC communication in XP SP2:

RPC interfaces restriction in Windows XP SP2
Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
List of Remote Procedure Call (RPC) fixes in Windows XP Service Pack 2

Comment by kiran badgujar - 30 June 2008 @ 7:28 Reply

i am getting rpc locater error in xp client machine i have 2003 server, can you please tell me what is the solution?

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