[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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