[jcifs] 0x1B names.

James Nord teilo at teilo.net
Mon Jul 30 13:47:29 GMT 2001


James Nord wrote:

> Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>
>> Quick question...
>>
>> (Yes, I ask a lot of these.  I don't get many answers though.  A shame.)
>>
>> The 0x1B name represents a Domain Master Browser (DMB).  In Microsoft
>> terms this is also a PDC.  Microsoft created a special extension to 
>> handle
>> these names.  You can send a wildcard query with an 0x1B name type to 
>> a WINS
>> server and it will return a list of up to 25 DMB names.
>>
>> ...or so I'm told.  I'd like to see this in a capture, if anyone has 
>> one.
>>
> We have a MS Wins Server (NT 4), so I can capture one.  

Sorry, I accidentally trashed my Linux machine earlier today when 
upgrading libpcap, so I won't be able to capture anything untill I 
re-install.  (Hopefully this time I will actually be able to gert my 
ditto drive working and doing backups!)

:-(

/James





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