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Windows 10 “The remote procedure call failed” error when opening image with Photos app

Every time I try to open an image with the default Photos app in Windows 10, it shows a black window and after a few seconds I get this error: Then the app closes and the image doesn't show up. If I open the Photos app directly, it just closes…
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Does Psexec execute Remote Procedure Calls?

I've heard of RPCs and that they get executed via TCP port 135. I just executed ipconfig via psexec.exe on a remote PC and wondered if this is a RPC. As I've seen in Wireshark, the whole process is beeing done via SMB port 445 not DCE/RPC port…
JohnnyFromBF
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RPC hangs Windows?

I am using Windows 10 on HP EliteBook 850 G4. In last few months, sometimes there occurs a hang of the system. Firefox shows "Does not respond", explorer.exe (task panel) doesn't respond, but I can for example minimize some windows and change focus…
DangeMask
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Excel interop - remote procedure call failed or RPC_E_SERVERFAULT

We have a C# application that internally invokes excel. It does so using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.dll. The application works on most computers with Excel, but not on mine. Originally, the application was failing with HRESULT 0x800706BE (The…
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"RPC server unavailable" trying to access Hyper-V server from Hyper-V Manager on Windows 8.1 client

The problem After searching for uses for my old laptop, I've decided to turn the Wyvern into a virtualization server running Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (freely available, essentially a heavily stripped-down Windows Server 2012 R2 with just the…
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Usefulness of having port 135 open in Active Directory environment?

During a network review, we noticed that some surface hub that are joined to the domain did not have port 135 (msrpc) opened. What is the difference between having surface book with port 135 opened, and the others? Considering that both work…
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rpc shutdown command from linux to windows server 2012 - connection refused

I am needing to restart a windows server from a linux server. The error i get is: (i have replaced ip address with xx ) Could not connect to server xx.xx.xx.xx Connection failed: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED it fails with that result no matter…
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how to order confluence pages via the api?

I'm uploading a few hundreds of pages to Confluence 5.3.1 (no option to upgrade right now) using a Python script talking to Confluence via JSON-RPC (Remote Confluence Methods and friends). I need to control the order of child pages via the API. So…
Capt. Crunch
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Cannot connect to computer over RPC

I am trying to execute the command: tasklist /S computer-bureau on an other computer in our network. I always get the fault: RPC server is unavailable. When I execute the command on the computer self it is working, however when I execute it from…
Joël Craenhals
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Shutdown Windows machine remotely without telnet/ssh

I have been trying to shutdown a remote XP machine but cannot get it to budge. I did the following on the Windows box: Ensured no firewall Started Remote Registry Editing service Shared a network drive (to enable file sharing?) Created a user…
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How to log what RPC service is doing?

My Windows 10 sometimes hangs. It starts from Firefox, but explorer, and other application is hanging at the same time too. This hang has different duration, from 1 to 60 seconds. I noticed at this time svchost.exe process CPU usage jumps to full…
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RpcSs connects to 180.97.239.5. Should I be alarmed?

Today I found a suspicious connection from svchost.exe to 180.97.239.5. In the Windows Task Manager I found that the connection is made from RpcSs. According to Wikipedia, RPC is remote procedure call when a computer program causes a procedure…
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RPC Connection Filtered with no Firewalls

I have a workstation (PC1) that cannot communicate with a domain controller over RPC (TCP/135). C:\PortQryV2> portqry.exe -n 192.168.1.1 -p tcp -o 135 Querying target system called: 192.168.1.1 Attempting to resolve IP address to a name... IP…
Micah Røckstår Henning
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How can I enable RPC protocol on Ubuntu?

I tried #rpcinfo but I don't get any useful informations. In fedora it's enabled by default, but it's not the same in ubuntu. How can I make it work on Ubuntu?
user3328049
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Wireshark RPC packet capture with localhost

I want to capture RPC-XML packets on locahost using wireshark. As RPC-XML is at the top of tcp/udp, I enabled all protocols still I am not able to capture the traffic. Is there other way to do so? I created sample RPC application for testing…
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