Anyone know what bit 4 is in the flags2 field on the SMB header?

Christopher R. Hertel crh at ubiqx.mn.org
Thu Feb 8 21:17:34 GMT 2007


I have had this question several times recently.  The best I could find was
a cryptic comment in smb.h:

#define FLAGS2_WIN2K_SIGNATURE     0xC852 /* Hack alert ! For now... JRA. */

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Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> Q?
> 
> XP sets the flags field to 0xc853 and Vista sets 0xc843.
> Bit 4 is not mentioned anywhere that I can find.  Thanks
> for any pointers.
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> cheers, jerry
> 

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