number of aces in big endian format?

[Luke Howard]

Talking of big-endianness, Samba might like to add support for 
receiver-makes-right in Microsoft Encoding Services (MS RPC 
serialization), as used in the Kerberos authorization data amongst other 
things.

You can find the relevant code in Novell's version of the OSF DCE RPC 
library at:

http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Dcerpc

Check out idl_mes_put_encoding_header() in idllib/pickling.c.

-- Luke