[jcifs] Port 445 Transport

[Christopher R. Hertel]

I outline a strategy in my book:

  http://ubiqx.org/cifs/SMB.html#SMB.3
and
  http://ubiqx.org/cifs/figures/smb-02.html

There are more notes at the end of the current SMB URI draft too.

The problem, of course, is that I can only provide an outline in the book.  
The actual implementation is a candidate for a lot of fine tuning.

Some notes:

- If the SMB URL you get resolves as a NetBIOS name then 139 is your best 
  first-guess.  This may mean keeping some state info on the client side 
  (eg., did you start by looking up a workgroup name and then "descend" 
  to a server name).

- If port 139 or 445 are specified, then you have a clue.

- If a nonstandard port is specified (common with SSH port redirection, 
  for example) then you have to do some guessing.

- If you send an NBT Session Request to a non-NBT port (eg., 445) on a 
  Windows box the Windows box won't respond at all.  You wind up timing 
  out.  If you *don't* send the Session Request and one is expected, you 
  get an NBT Session Service error message *right away*.  That's faster, 
  and you now know what to do.  Samba doesn't care whether you send a
  Session Request or not (on any port).

- You can't send RAP requests to port 445.  Samba will respond (we're odd 
  that way) but Windows won't.  The NetServerEnum2 doesn't make much sense
  on port 445, and it seems that MS just doesn't run RAP on that port.

Hope that's useful.

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:47:25AM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> Can you recommend a strategy for how the jCIFS client should behave
> regarding port 445 transport. In suspect we should just attempt to connect
> to 445 and fall back to 139?
> 
> Mike

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