NBT length parameter larger than necessary in session request

[Christopher R. Hertel]

"Michael B. Allen" wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> Ever notice smbclient sends an NBT session request with an NBT length
> field that is 4 bytes longer than necessary? No harm, but is there a
> reason for this?

Yes.  It was a bug.  The header length was being added to the total length.
It didn't cause any trouble, but I fixed it (somewhere around 2.2.6, I
think).

> I'm using 2.2.1a shipped with RH connecting to the same version of Samba
> over loopback.

Good catch.  Newer versions should not have this bug.

Chris -)-----

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