smbclient -M sends NetBIOS session service header to port 445

[Christopher R. Hertel]

Steve,

That would be great.  Please also look at the -L option too, as that
should default to 139 as well.  (Sort of... it's not necessary for listing
shares.)

The -p option should override the defaults in any case, though.  There are 
folks who use port-redirection (for SSH links to the server, etc.).  
They'd want -p to be authoritative, rather than just explicit.  :)

Thanks!

Chris -)-----

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:33:40AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:08:32AM -0600, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
> 
> > So, smbclient should default to using port 139 for the NetServerEnum2 
> > calls (-L option) unless -p is actually specified.  Basically, the same 
> > problem as -M.
> 
> Ok, that was the same conclusion I arrived at.  I'll put together a
> patch to make 'smbclient -M' force a connection to port 139.
> 
> > In your example, though, you specify both -M and -p.  Personally, I think
> > that in this case smbclient is doing the right thing.  If I enter
> > 'smbclient -M server -p 10973', then I would expect smbclient to try
> > sending the message to that port.  The defaults should be 'best normal 
> > behavior' but smbclient is much more useful if I can bend it to my will.
> 
> Well, the -p option was added only for the purpose of being explicit.  In
> 3.0, port 445 is currently the default port for *all* operations,
> including smbclient -M.  So the code does need to change if -M needs port
> 139.
> 
> -- 
> Steve Langasek
> postmodern programmer



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