Wildcard handling

[Gerald Carter]

Andrew Tridgell wrote:
> 
> Gerald,
> 
> I've now proven that NT does select wildcard behaviour 
> based on the protocol dialect that is negotiated. What 
> is more interesting is that the behaviour of all 
> the wildcard functions (including the NT specific findfirst
> requests) changes, not just the functions that are legal
> with the lower protocol level.
> 
> To demonstrate this I modified smbclient to use 
> SMBsearch and to not negotiate above LANMAN1 protocol level. 
> When connecting to NT the mask ?.??? matched the filename 
> "x". Changing to LANMAN1 with NT_FINDFIRST gave the same 
> result. Changing to SMBsearch or NT_FINDFIRST with the 
> NT1 protocol level changes the result so that "x" does 
> not match "?.???".

Yup.  That's what I found.  I think the only main difference is
how to handle the '?' wildcard.   At least as far as I can tell.






Cheers, jerry
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