[jcifs] Re: Microsoft MCPP and WSPP docs

[ronnie sahlberg]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Michael B Allen <ioplex at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:22:00 -0600
>  "Christopher R. Hertel" <crh at ubiqx.mn.org> wrote:
>  > >> Don't forget the newest pile of doco:  Microsoft has released the
>  > >> documentation they wrote for MCPP and WSPP programs.
>  > >>
>  > >>   http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx?ForumGroupID=573&SiteID=1
>  > >>
>  > >> Time will tell how much better this doco is relative the previous attempts.
>  > >
>  > > Yeah, I saw this but I wasn't sure if it was ok to read it. Are there
>  > > still conditions attached to this stuff? I'm not just doing OSS anymore. I
>  > > have commercial software that I license to people.
>  >
>  > According to the press release, the only restriction would be patent claims.
>  >  They even go as far as to say they won't sue over those for non-commercial use.
>  >
>  > Some of the docs now actually list the relevant patents, which helps.
>  >
>  > I'll know more soon, but here's an article from The Reg:
>  >   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/microsoft_goes_open/
>  >
>  > They gave me a T-shirt that says "Reports of snowballs in hell" on the back.
>  > (No, really.)
>
>  Have you looked at these docs? If so, let's do a little test. Below
>  are three things that I'd like to know. If you're up to it, see if you
>  can find them.
>
>  1) Regarding the SPNEGO protocol, the initiator sends a NegTokenInit
>  and the acceptor sends a NegTokenResp. But the SMB_COM_NEGOTIATE
>  response deviates from this behavior in that it sends NegTokenInit but
>  it's the acceptor. The subsequent SMB_COM_SESSION_SETUP_ANDX resumes
>  normal behavior and sends a NegTokenInit. Is there any mention of this
>  SMB specific oddity in the new docs?
>
>  2) DFS clients check the authority component of a UNC to determine if
>  it's a domain or a server so that if it's a domain it knows to do a
>  referral and initiate DFS resolution. That check is a simple lookup in
>  what is called the "trusted domains cache" or "SPC cache". Is there
>  anything in the new docs about how DFS clients retrieve this list of
>  trusted domains?
>
>  3) There is a connectionless (UDP) LDAP request for the netlogon
>  attribute of the RootDSE that MSDN documentation refers to only as a
>  "CLDAP ping". Much like a corresponding mailslot request, it is used
>  to retrieve basic but very important information about a domain
>  controller including it's DNS domain name, NetBIOS domain name and
>  GUID. There appears to be at least 4 levels of information that can be
>  retrieved controlled by an NtVer attribute in the filter. In these new
>  MS docs, is there any mention of the binary blob of data returned in
>  this very common CLDAP netlogon attribute query?
>
>  Mike
>

For 3,    see MS-ADTS section 7.3.3 in the public docs.