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List:       ms-cifs
Subject:    Re: Session set up problems
From:       Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl () SWITCHBOARD ! NET>
Date:       1998-01-31 15:34:42
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On Sat, 31 Jan 1998, CIFS Repository wrote:

> On Fri 30 Jan, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > > > > tell me what is the simplest set of calls you can get aways with as a
> > > > > client?
> > > >
> > > > eeks, that will take quite a lot of time.
> > >
> > > Thought as much.  I was hoping there would be a couple of messages: "Hello,
> > > any servers out there", and "Hello, I'm a server and my shares are ...".
> >
> > it's more that you have to support NetServerEnum2 and NetShareEnum2.
> > other servers will contact _you_ to ask what your shares are and what
> > servers you know about.
>
> I don't have anything on NetServerEnum2; what doc is that in?

ur.... cifsrap2.txt?

> When other servers contact me, why can't I just ignore them; or is that
> really unsociable?  I'm only implimenting a client, so I wont have shares,
> and it wouldn't seem unreasonable (although not very helpful) for me to claim
> to know of no servers.  Am I going to have to negotiate a name too?

you will need to claim a netbios name.  see rfc1001.txt and rfc1002.txt

> Oh and one more thing: what is the QUESTION_NAME in the node status message?
> I can't seem to find any explaination of that. I think there's a document I
> haven't got.

rfc1002.txt - section 4.2.1.2.

lots of love,

luke

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