Buffer limit on server listings.

[Rakesh Patel]

Pardon my simple questsions on this topic - with a full Windows 2003 
domain level/
Windows 2003 forest level infrastructure, is browsing accomplished via 
DNS service
location records, or is some level of RPC still required? Does the 
entire browse
master election process become eliminated if NetBIOS over TCP/IP is 
disabled and only
DNS is utilized? 

I may be confusing a few protocols and technologies here since
I have not had much experience with WINS and Browse master procotols 
since I have
primarily been involved with the UNIX side of things and only have 
debugged WINS
on the UNIX side from early Samba implementations.I do understand that 
WINS just
addresses simplistic name resolution on a dynamic and static basis like 
DNS and
WINS servers can co-ordinate name resolution between segments unlike 
broadcasts.
I am also talking about Domain environment instead of a Workgroup 
environment,
so there may be a difference there in who handles WINS as well as Browsing.

Thanks,
Rakesh Patel.


Christopher R. Hertel wrote:

>Michael B Allen wrote:
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>>Christopher R. Hertel said:
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>>>I have *not* heard of NetServerEnum3(), and when I google for it the top
>>>reference is jCIFS code.  I would love to see some doco or, better, a
>>>trace.  This would be a nifty thing to add to my browse service
>>>documentation (as an annotation).
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>>See the jCIFS mailing list for dialog between myself and Gary Rambo on
>>March 15, 2004.
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>>"NetServerEnum3 turned up in a network trace between an XP client and a
>>W2K or W2K3 PDC and appears to solve the 64K server list limit problem..."
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>>He attached a patch for jCIFS as well. Provided it fails over nicely with
>>Win95/98/ME I suspect it will be included RSN.
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>I found that one.  Did Ethereal parse it correctly?
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>>>I have also never heard of a NetrServerEnum() RPC call, and googling turns
>>>up nothing.  Can you point me at any documentation?
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>>I just made the name up. I just mean the NetServerEnum RPC.
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>Thing is, I'm not aware of an RPC that does this.  Not saying there isn't
>one (I mean, geez, there's an RPC for just about everything including
>scratching your armpits).  Have you seen such a beast in the wild?
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>Chris -)-----
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