[PATCH] Allow GetDCNameEx to be called for arbitrary sites and trusted domains

[Volker Lendecke]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 11:29:41AM +1200, Garming Sam via samba-technical wrote:
> source3/libsmb/clidgram.c: nbt_getdc_send
> 
>         state->nmbd_pid = pidfile_pid(lp_pid_directory(), "nmbd");
>         if (state->nmbd_pid == 0) {
>                 DEBUG(3, ("No nmbd found\n"));
>                 tevent_req_nterror(req, NT_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED);
>                 return tevent_req_post(req, ev);
>         }
> 
> So it seems that it relies on nmbd running in order to make any further
> identification. This seems to be the expected code path, so selftest
> must have some additional records or some other method that circumvents
> this. I'm also not confident about the site-awareness of the above calls
> that are being triggered. It is possible that someone actually has to do
> the NETBIOS name to DNS name conversion at some layer to get this right.
> The goal for me was to mostly just plumb the call and ensure the single
> domain case works as expected.

Well, this code path could go away very, pending review and
discussion. See my patchset with the unexpected pipe in
source4/nbt_server. Can you take a look there?

Thanks, Volker

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