Problems with Samba-TNG and Win9X etc

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have been looking at the GETDC and other response, and it looks like
> Windows gets confused by a number of things.
> 
> I think that Samba-TNG should respond to a cut-down GETDC request with a
> cut-down GETDC response.  This is easy to do in nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c by
> noting the length of the incomming request, and if it is short (ie, ends in
> the name of the domain the PDC is being sought for, instead of including
> the last few parameters) then we should only send back the name of the PDC.

yep.  that's the way to do it.  the last string is non-unicode.

> I will probably code this up later today and upload it to the CVS tree.

thanks richard!!