svn commit: samba r21991 - in branches/SAMBA_3_0/source: include lib libsmb smbd

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:43:11AM +0200, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> 
> We could also create a new call at SMB level maybe SMBsesssetup2?
> 
> There're a lot of free message numbers. Are there also some ranges
> defined? Or were the number randomly picked by the first implementor of
> a call?

A lesson in SMB politics. The top level numbers are defined by
Microsoft who reserve the right to allocate new ones at any
time and for any reason. The space *we* have reserved to allocate
from is the trans2 space defined in the UNIX extensions. We
can't create new calls at the SMB level.

Jeremy.