Why is my box advertising Remote Disk Management?

[street spirit]

When I run avahi-browse in our office LAN, I see my own host advertising something called "Remote Disk Management":

$ avahi-browse -at
...
+   eth0 IPv6 myhostname-2                       Remote Disk Management  local
+   eth0 IPv4 myhostname-2                       Remote Disk Management  local
...
+   eth0 IPv6 myhostname-2 [12:34:56:78:9a:bc]   Workstation             local
+   eth0 IPv4 myhostname-2 [12:34:56:78:9a:bc]   Workstation             local
...

The service is marked as local, but I only have a very foggy idea of how Avahi/Zeroconf work, and I'm a bit worried. I'd rather not have my disks managed (or shared) remotely. The thing seems related to the udisks service, of which I also know little, except that it probably helps with automounting removable storage devices.

There is only one entry in /etc/avahi/services - udisks.service:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">

<!-- This file is part of udisks -->

<service-group>
  <name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name>

  <service>
    <type>_udisks-ssh._tcp</type>
    <port>22</port>
  </service>
</service-group>

Should I just (re)move this file? It can't be doing much good anyway, because my sshd is configured to use a different (non-standard) port.

Thanks in advance for any useful advice.

[street spirit]

Anybody?

[SwiftTools]

Yeah anybody? Got the same weird feeling that this is somewhat unwilled and could be harmful.

I'll try to find out what is this service about.

-Swift

[street spirit]

Just as a quick follow-up for the record: I have removed the config file from /etc/avahi/services in the meantime, and the Remote Disk Management results are gone. I haven't noticed any ill effects, so if you don't need it, it should be safe to remove the file.

[SwiftTools]

It's advertized by 'udisks' (DB disk management) and offer remote disk management:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1500328
A Ubunutu box (not Kubunutu one) can manage the exposed disks remotely.

-Swift

[mastablasta]

A Ubunutu box (not Kubunutu one) can manage the exposed disks remotely.

why not Kubuntu one? they use same base the only difference is the Desktop environment.

[SwiftTools]

Indeed, if you read the provided link you'll see that remote-disk-management utility is for GNOME. Not for KDE (AFAIK). Ain't that a Desktop environment difference?

[street spirit]

The "Disk Utility" tool is Gnome only; udisks itself is independent of the desktop environment.

(I only mentioned [kubuntu] because this forum requires me to select a distro variant as part of the title, and I wasn't sure that this setup was really the same for [all variants]).