Windows spooler sends SMB blocks with non-sequential order.
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Wed May 18 00:17:06 GMT 2005
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:04:13AM +1000, Andrew Tridgell wrote:
> if you look at the interface for the original SMBsplwrite call:
>
> /* SMBsplwrite interface */
> struct {
> enum smb_write_level level;
>
> struct {
> uint16_t fnum;
> uint16_t count;
> const uint8_t *data;
> } in;
> } splwrite;
>
> notice it doesn't take an offset? So I suspect our code was just
> carried over from the earliest days when clients used SMBsplwrite
> instead of SMBwrite or SMBwritex for print files. That would be the
> earliest DOS clients I think. Certainly WfWg used normal write calls.
Yep. Seems right to me. Don't you just love legacy code :-).
I've coded up the fix and I'm going to check the RPC spoolss
interface to see if it passes offsets (unless Jerry does it
first :-).
Jeremy.
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