libsmbclient and browsing NT and Win9X workgroups: Evidence ofbad things

Jeremy Allison jeremy at valinux.com
Thu Feb 15 21:18:24 GMT 2001


Richard Sharpe wrote:

> I now have evidence that Windows NT, in responding to a GetBackupList
> request, ignores the source port number in both the UDP header and the the
> NetBIOS datagram service header, and responds to port 138! Evidence attached.

Yes, this is a known bug in NT and is the reason for the
existance of the unexpected packet db. nmbd must be running
for this to work of course.

Jeremy.

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