Curious Host Announcements from Samba

[Richard Sharpe]

Hi,

I have noticed some interesting things about the way nmbd sends host
announcement browser mailslot messages as a result of decoding this stuff
in Ethereal.

Samba initially sends a bunch of host announcements with no Server type
bits set, and then after a while sends a further bunch with a number of
bits set.



Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com, Master Linux Administrator :-),
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author: First Australian 5-day, intensive, hands-on Linux SysAdmin course