Identifying WinXP

Kris Van Hees aedil at alchar.org
Tue Oct 8 13:23:01 GMT 2002


On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:13:47AM -0500, Gerald Carter wrote:
> I don't know if anyone has spent the time to attempt to isolate 
> differences between 2k & XP during the protocol negotiation.
> Or perhaps they have and the differences were not enough to 
> flag the client as one os or the other.

That is indeed what I am seeing.  The protocol negotiation sequence is the
same for Win2k and WinXP it seems, and even the FLAGS2_* mask that is sent
to the server is the same (0xc853).  This was verified with Win2000 Pro and
WinXP Pro.

I was hoping I overlooked something :)

	Kris



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