SMB2 in vista beta2

Michael B Allen mba2000 at ioplex.com
Thu Nov 10 00:04:22 GMT 2005


On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:42:27 +1100
Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 12:47 -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 21:13:49 +1100
> > tridge at samba.org wrote:
> > 
> > > I'd especially like to thank Ronnie Sahlberg for his work on this.
> > 
> > Ditto here and to Andrew for being so good at reverse engineering stuff,
> 
> Sorry to be picky, but we really don't do 'reverse engineering',
> particularly in the mindset that so many have which implies
> de-compilation and the like.  The art that tridge is such an expert at
> is 'network protocol analysis'.  Because that's what we really care
> about:  now how it's implemented, but what behaviours happen on the
> wire, and what is required for a wire-compatible implementation.

Understood 100%. I know people frequently misinterpret these terms
(sometimes deliberately). I'll be more careful next time.

Mike


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