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Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Nov 9 15:16:17 GMT 2001


On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Steven French wrote:

> The second question, the DNS SRV RR if there isn't one there in Samba
> head already - I was planning on writing a routine to do DC lookup
> that way. This, and a companion DNS entry, were reasonably documented
> on the Microsoft site and it sure would be nice to be able to have a
> fall back mechanism that works better on multiple subnets than the
> existing 0x1C and 0x1D stuff and the mailslot domain broadcasts for
> locating the DCs ip address.  Microsoft even put sample Linux & BSD
> code on their site to show people how to do this.

This is what I was referring to.  There is more to existing
in a Win2k NetBIOS less domain than port 445.  That's all.
Thanks Steve.






cheers, jerry
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