Samba 2.2.7 Oddities

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 17:44, Michael B Allen wrote:
> >> These are admittedly obscure and will likely not effect effect windows
> >> clients too badly
> >
> > I would never say that :-)
> >
> > The whole samba4 exercise it on the basis that every non-conforming
> > behaviour is a bug waiting to be exposed, so we certainly want to fix
> > them.
> 
> What about the non-conforming behaviour required for clients to function
> properly like how the PrimaryDomain field in an SMB_COM_NEGOTIATE_RESPONSE
> is always Unicode and never aligned? I think we need a new dialect called
> "NT LM 0.12 CORRECTED (NO REALLY)". Then we could all be idealists.

Well that string goes away with extended security, but I get your point
:-)

Naturally, we conform not to the spec, but to what Microsoft does...

Andrew Bartlett

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