[jcifs] problem with NbtAddress.getAllByAddress()

[ashish]

Hi,

I was just looking around different implemenations of netbios name query
request.
I came across samba's implementation.
http://samba.org/doxygen/samba/2.2/namequery_8c-source.html

Here, code does set all flags to false in " name_status_query() " function.

Ok, I have one more query. I am not able to figure out how the hex code
related to name is populated.
Please help me out here...

Thanks,
ashish





----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher R. Hertel <crh at ubiqx.mn.org>
To: ashish <ashishn at ntechra.com>
Cc: <jcifs at samba.org>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: [jcifs] problem with NbtAddress.getAllByAddress()


> Sigh.
>
> Look, I'm sure this all makes sense in your mind, but you are providing
> this information without context.  I can break down your hex string, but
> only because I'm steeped in NBT lore at this point.
>
> Sigh...
>
> \xa2\x48  Transaction ID
> \x00\x00  Query request, with all flags false.
> \x00\x01  QD_COUNT = 1
> \x00\x00
> \x00\x00
> \x00\x00
> \x20\x43\x4b\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41
> \x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x41\x00
> Name = "*\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", Suffix = '\0'
> \x00\x21  Q_TYPE  = NBSTAT
> \x00\x01  Q_CLASS = IN
>
>
> Okay, the only potential differences I see are that jCIFS seems to be
> generating a query with RD and B set.  These should be clear, to be
> RFC-correct.  (Note: the RFCs have a typo that makes this unclear.
> RFC1002:4.2.17 shows the B flag in the NBSTAT query packet.  It should
> show zero.)
>
> I have my own testing tools, and I can send NBSTAT queries with these bits
> turned on.  I have no trouble with W/95 and W/98 boxes.  I don't have XP
> to test, however.
>
> There is no reason that a system would pay attention to these bits,
> *unless* (to speed things up) someone were to write code that simply reads
> the entire two-byte flags field as a single short int.  This would be very
> fast, particularly since you wouldn't need to covert to/from network byte
> order.  Just read the two bytes.  Microsoft may have done something like
> this in newer code.  Again, I cannot test this right now.
>
> Chris -)-----
>
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