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List:       ms-cifs
Subject:    Re: browsing spec
From:       Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl () CB1 ! COM>
Date:       1997-03-20 0:32:27
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On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Paul Leach wrote:

> Is there something wrong with appendix B of the spec, which says how to
> find the PDC and hence the DMB?

dur. i am thick. no, there's nothing wrong with it: the significance of
this code had not hit me - that's all!

sorry to take up people's time on a public list.

> > do microsoft do one of the following:
> >
> > - do a NETLOGON request for the PDC, and take the name of the PDC
> > listed in
> > the response as the domain master browser, keeping this information
> > for
> > later use in the browser.  or am i completely off the beaten track,
> > here?

so, having seen such packets on-the-wire, i kind of answered my own
question without realising it.  sigh...

luke

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