samba-3.0alpha23: smbclient -M ... ?

[David Lee]

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, David Lee wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > Sounds as though the names are being written in Unicode, which sounds like
> > the wrong thing to do in this case.
> >
> > > #            0: 0003 470e 18ff 0800 2004 c4ea 0800 4500    ..G..... .....E.
> > > #           16: 006e ca27 4000 4006 67f8 81ea 0246 81ea    .n.'@. at .g....F..
> > > #           32: 0250 804e 008b 7146 2b36 635a b292 5018    .P.N..qF+6cZ..P.
> > > #           48: 60f4 ca0a 0000 0000 0042 ff53 4d42 d500    `........B.SMB..
> > > #           64: 0000 0008 01c8 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000    ................
> > > #           80: 0000 ffff 9109 0000 0100 001f 0004 7300    ..............s.
> > > #           96: 6100 6d00 6200 6100 0000 0400 6900 7400    a.m.b.a.....i.t.
> > > #          112: 7300 7000 6300 3800 3000 0000              s.p.c.8.0...
> >
> > Hmmm... Unicode *and* lower case.  Probably both wrong...
> > [...]
> > Anyway, yes...  The Unicode bit in the Flags2 is set in the second example
> > (Samba 3.0).  The messenger service is old, and probably hasn't been
> > updated for Unicode, so I think that this is wrong.
>
> Many thanks for your reply, Chris.
>
> Subsequent to my original message, I locally hacked (quick'n'dirty) my 3.0
> to try to avoid doing UNICODE, and that seemed successfully to sidestep
> the problem (the "smbclient" message was then successfully transmitted).

Please could someone take a look at the patch I sketched for this, and
submitted on 29th April:
   www.samba.org/samba-patches?findid=1297

Thanks.


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