SMB Keep-alive.

[Richard Sharpe]

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Christopher R.Hertel wrote:

> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 10:07:07AM +1000, Tim Potter wrote:
> > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:10:00PM -0500, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> > 
> > > I have not seen SMB Keep-Alive used except in a few odd instances in
> > > which it is used to trick Windows into behaving properly.
> > > 
> > > Does anyone know if SMB Keep-Alive is actually used in practice?
> > 
> > Doesn't smbclient have to respond to keepalives or else the connection
> > dies?
> 
> Ethereal (the version I'm using, at least--I have not had time to update
> lately and it is a bit out of date) reports these packets as "NBSS
> Continuation Messages" and does *not* break down the fields properly.  I
> am running 0.8.17.

Ummm, that is seriously out of date. Please update. The later versions 
understand significant parts of MSRPC.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe at ns.aus.com, rsharpe at samba.org, 
sharpe at ethereal.com