Setting up the "Directory Access" application

I was just looking at the "Directory Access" application, and noticed some services enabled by default (AppleTalk, Bonjour etc).
I'm not using AppleTalk or Bonjour, so would it be useful to switch these off? (for security reasons or performance).
Can I maybe safely switch off the other three services as well? (I dont use the computer for any file sharing, by the way).
Thanks in advance for any advice on this.

Hi, interesting questions, Bonjour is indeed a Hog, I'd give it a try, since you know how to change it.
See these...
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050707222434355
http://osxdaily.com/2009/09/15/disable-bonjour-by-turning-off-mdnsresponder/

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Ldap anonymous directory access

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> I have a PCI vulnerability titled "LDAP Anonymous Directory Access
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> fix.
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> Is there a difference between anonymous binds and anonymous directory
> access? I was being told this is my problem - that bind is different
> than directory access so I fixed the wrong thing. I thought ldap was
> the directory access protocol, and bind was the connection being made
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> appreciated.
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Directory in application server has multiple flat files

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How should we know that the Directory in application server has multiple flat files.
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regards
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Try this FM,
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I have tried all solutions available on internet regarding this problem but none seems to work.
As per one solution I added the user in sharepoint site collection administrator group still no luck!
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Hi,
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Best regards.
Thanks
Victoria Xia
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