General

On MacOS X 10.4, portmap is not running by default. You will need to modify the file

/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.portmap.plist

and add

        <key>OnDemand</key><false/>

at the end. Then restart your machine, and portmap should be running.

If anyone has hints about how this could be done in a simpler manner, please let us know! Cheers.

 ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/ PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
 <plist version="1.0">
 <dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.apple.portmap</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
                <string>/usr/sbin/portmap</string>
        </array>
        <key>Sockets</key>
        <dict>
                <key>OnDemandTickler</key>
                <dict>
                        <key>SockPathName</key>
                        <string>/var/run/portmap.socket</string>
                </dict>
        </dict>
        <key>ServiceIPC</key>
        <true/>
        <key>OnDemand</key><false/>
 </dict>
 </plist>