Todo list
Jean-Francois Micouleau
Jean-Francois.Micouleau at utc.fr
Mon Feb 9 15:15:47 GMT 1998
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Paul Ashton wrote:
> I thought I'd try and enumerate some of the things that need
> doing and hopefully get some volunteers to look into them,
> or at least provide comments and pointers on them.
>
[snip]
>
> 3. Password changing. There seems to be dozens of ways to
> do this and the various mechanisms are documented in
> some of the cifs documents, microsoft ppp chap extensions,
> and other places. NetServerPasswordSet() should be an
> easy one that we haven't got around to yet. The nice
> one to have would be the CTRL-ALT-DEL password change
> one as that provides a plaintext password to the server
> in order that it can be quality checked. Decoding that
Did you get a trace of this one already ? From what I understood on
others lists the password is sent in form of encrypted challenge/response.
Or I didn't understand at all which is also possible !
> one means that we can synchonise password databases
> with /etc/passwd providing the password is changed on
> the NT machine.
>
> 4. Web front ends to configuration management data. Until
> the whole protocol is implemented, it would be easier
> having a front end to new workstation creation,
> password changing, etc., so that RPCs for user manager
> for domains and others don't all have to be implemented
> (plus you get to be able to admin from Unix/Mac/win3.1).
Something have already been started by andrew to manage smb.conf. I think
it can be extented to handle the rest.
>
> 5. Printing. As Luke pointed out, the whole of the spoolss
> named pipe subsystem needs to be implemented. This is
> quite a job. It would be nice to do so that printer
> drivers can be downloaded to workstations as in 95's
> PRINTER$ system (I'm assuming NT does this with RPCs).
Yes you're right Paul. I took a lot of \\spoolss trace this week-end and
the drivers are copied and setup this way. I'm not sure ALL the calls have
to be implemented at once. But as luke stated already there is a lot of
calls and they are not all well documented in netmon.
>
> 6. Other subsystems. MS netmon lists R_DRSUAPI, R_INTERNET,
> R_LOGON, R_LSARPC, R_REMOTEAUTO, R_RXDS, R_SRVSVC,
> R_WINSIF, R_WINSPOOL as MSRPC services. It would be
> useful documenting to what extent each is known about,
> what exports (dumpbin/exports, quickview) are in the
> associated DLLs, etc.
> www.ntinternals.com winobj and nthandleex give you
> interesting info on which process is handling which
> named pipe, i.e. winlogon has the winreg named pipe
> open.
yes this is needed too because in the case of printing specially there is
some call to R_WINSPOOL to ckeck the printers
>
> 7. Tools. A description of the various tools that can be
> used to examine NT and network traffic and lists of
> resources with information. e.g. netmon, sourcer,
> softice, www.ntinternals.com, msdn, nt resource kit.
Yes yes, with links to the ones freely availables !
> Anything else people would like to see?
YES : the support of NT ACL, Wins replication and LDAP support for NT5
(I'm already looking at it)
>
> Any comments?
I think some calls not implemented are badly missing like all the SMB NT
commands (NT Create&X, NT transact, ...)
>
> Any volunteers?
me, That's one more :)
Jean Francois.
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