svn commit: samba r24789 - in branches/SAMBA_3_2/source/utils: .

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Wed Aug 29 20:18:37 GMT 2007


On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 07:55:15PM +0000, mimir at samba.org wrote:
> +	sec = (enum security_types)lp_security();
> +
> +	if (sec == SEC_ADS) {
> +		/* Connect to IPC$ using machine account's credentials. We don't use anonymous
> +		   connection here, as it may be denied by server's local policy. */
> +		net_use_machine_account();
> +
> +	} else {
> +		/* some servers (e.g. WinNT) don't accept machine-authenticated
> +		   smb connections */
> +		conn_flags |= NET_FLAGS_ANONYMOUS;
> +	}
> +
>  	/* Connect to remote machine */
> -	if (!(cli = net_make_ipc_connection_ex(domain, server, ip, (NET_FLAGS_ANONYMOUS|NET_FLAGS_PDC)))) {
> +	if (!(cli = net_make_ipc_connection_ex(domain, server, ip, conn_flags))) {
>  		return -1;
>  	}

Quick uninformed question: Why the fixed setting here, why
not try the secure alternative first and do a fallback if
that fails?

Volker
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