strupper() on username and domain in cli_session_setup_nt1()?

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Mon Sep 23 13:31:00 GMT 2002


On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Tim Potter wrote:

> I'm just wondering whether it is strictly necessary to uppercase the
> username and domain name when performing a session setup.  Applying the
> following patch should not break anything and would make smbclient be
> able to test for case sensitivity bugs in the remote server.
> 
> The behaviour of uppercasing everything seems to be peculiar to Windows
> 9x.  According to some testing done by the HP guys and girls, NT and
> 2000 send across the case of the username as it was created in the SAM,
> whereas XP sends the case the user logged in with.

The patch looks fine to me Tim.  










cheers, jerry
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