extended security & Negprot response

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Thu Aug 8 04:21:03 GMT 2002


Steven French wrote:
> 
> There had been some discussion about the first 16 byte field in the data
> area of the negprot response (before the security blob) when extended
> security is enabled.   Ethereal and the SNIA CIFS spec correctly indicate
> that it is the Server's GUID but head's negprot_spnego (in smbd/negprot.c)
> puts an ascii name in there.   Maybe its harmless but I was intrigued that
> the GUID in the field is stored in the registry - it matches exactly with
> the value of services\lanmanserver\parameters\GUID in its local registry -
> which makes sense since it has to be available for non-AD connected
> machines including standalone workstations.

Yes - its just a quick hack.  Now that we have support for GUIDs we
could well send them.  As far as the clients are concerned, we just need
to send *somthing* - they don't seem to care what it actually is.  

Andrew Bartlett

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