Hi Matthieu: Thank you for the traces. I'll get back to you as soon as I have something concrete.
Regards, Obaid Farooqi Sr. Support Escalation Engineer | Microsoft -----Original Message----- From: Matthieu Patou [mailto:mat+informatique.sa...@matws.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 12:01 PM To: Obaid Farooqi Cc: MSSolve Case Email; p...@tridgell.net; cifs-proto...@samba.org Subject: Re: [REG: 210050354365053001 ] more ms-dfsc.pdf questions Hi Obaid, > Hi Mathieu: > I'll be assisting you with your questions regarding MS-DFSC. Please feel free > to contact me if you have any question/clarification regarding this issue. > > Please send me the network traces for windows XP and Win 7/Win2k8 where you > see a difference in netbios name and FQDN. > Find attached 2 traces, one with xp where you see that xp is requesting for a referral (in order to get dcs) for \home.matws.net, and w7 is requesting home.matws.net. I also made a trace before with w2k8 against w2k3 and had something similar as well. Matthieu. > Regards, > Obaid Farooqi > Sr. Support Escalation Engineer | Microsoft > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dominic Salemno > Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 5:21 AM > To: Matthieu Patou > Cc: Interoperability Documentation Help > Subject: RE: more ms-dfsc.pdf questions > > Matthieu, > > One of our engineers will follow-up with you in regards to your issue. > > Thank you. > > Dominic Michael Salemno > Senior Support Escalation Engineer > US-CSS DSC Protocols Team > ________________________________________ > From: Matthieu Patou [mat+informatique.sa...@matws.net] > Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 5:16 AM > To: Interoperability Documentation Help; p...@tridgell.net; > cifs-proto...@samba.org > Subject: more ms-dfsc.pdf questions > > Dear dochelp, > > The paragraph "2.2.1.3 Domain Name" > define domain name as > " Unless specified otherwise, a domain name MUST be a null-terminated > Unicode character string > consisting of the name of a domain. This can be either a NetBIOS name or > a fully qualified domain > name (FQDN), as specified in [MS-ADTS]." > > So when we have in "3.3.5.3 Receiving a DC Referral Request" > > " The domain name in the referral request MUST be either a domain in the > current forest or a domain > in a trusted forest. The server MUST fail DC referral requests for other > domain names with a > STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER (0xC000000D) return code." > > We expect the client to request either FOOBAR (netbios domain) or > foobar.demo.com (fqdn). > > But it turns out that windows XP at least is requesting \FOOBAR and > \foobar.demo.com when w7 and w2k8 are requestion FOOBAR and > foobar.demo.com > > Also in the same paragraph "The SpecialNameOffset field MUST be set to the > offset in bytes from the beginning of the referral entry to the string that > contains the domain name for the referral response." > It let me think that this field should contain FOOBAR or foobar.demo.com but > it turns out that it's \FOOBAR or \foobar.demo.com that is returned (the > example in the mails out dfs questions from Bill Wesse was also showing this). > > The same remark apply the ExpandedName that also present a '\'. > > > In this paragraph it stated that: > "The ExpandedNameOffset field MUST be set to the offset in bytes from the > beginning of the referral entry to the first null-terminated DC Unicode > string. Each DC name immediately follows its null-terminated predecessor > without any padding. An implementation MUST use the value in the > NumberOfExpandedNames field to determine how many names are present in the > list at ExpandedNameOffset. > " > but in this doc: > "http://technet.microsoft.com/ru-ru/library/cc782417%28WS.10%29.aspx"; > this point: > > "The client checks its domain cache for an existing domain controller > referral for the Contoso.com domain. If this referral is in the cache, the > client proceeds to step 5. If no domain controller referral is in the domain > cache, the client connects to the IPC$ shared folder of the active domain > controller in the context of the LocalSystem account and sends a domain > controller referral request containing the appropriate domain name > (Contoso.com). The domain controller returns the list of domain controllers > in the Contoso.com domain. The domain controllers in the clients site are at > the top of the list. If least-expensive target selection is enabled, domain > controllers outside of the targets site are sorted by lowest cost. If > same-site target selection is enabled, DFS ignores this setting and lists the > remaining domain controllers in random order." > > Tells us that the same-site target or other parameters have an influence. > > Maybe the MS-DFSC needs to be updated ? Also where those parameters > (same-site target, least-expensive, ...) are stored (in the DS or somewhere > else). > > The next paragraph sates: "From the IP address of the client, determine the > site of the client" what should happen is the client is not in a site (for > instance if it has a static ip and the admin forgot to declare this subnet in > one site) ? > > Regards. > > Matthieu. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ cifs-protocol mailing list cifs-protocol@cifs.org https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-protocol
