SAMLOGON UDP request

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at switchboard.net
Mon Dec 21 15:19:01 GMT 1998


On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Andrew Tridgell wrote:

> > ah, good point.  it would be useful for there to be code in samba that
> > says:
> > 
> > if (name_type == 0x1b)
> > {
> > 	process_getbackuplist_req(...)
> > }
> > 
> > instead of just accepting it from any netbios name, which is completely
> > wrong.
> 
> why? Is there some client that sends a getbackuplistreq to the "wrong"
> netbios name?

i don't know of one specifically, but i bet there are some.

> If there is, then why should be refuse to reply?

netbios names have specific purposes.  it's a bit like receiving an http
request on an SMTP port and answering with a valid http response as if
nothing at all was wrong.
 



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