Thanks, Bryan. I am looking forward to the reply. Bryan Burgin wrote: > [Dochelp to bcc] > [Adding casemail and case info] > > Hi, Chris, > > I created 11100564603264 to track this issue. Someone from the team will > contact you soon. > > Bryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher R. Hertel [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 10:48 AM > To: Interoperability Documentation Help; [email protected]; > [email protected] > Subject: [MS-NBTE] and NetBIOS name case. > > In [MS-NBTE], dated Sept. 20, 2011... > > Section 2.2.1 has the following statement: > > Neither [RFC1001] nor [RFC1002] discusses whether names are > case-sensitive. This document clarifies this ambiguity by specifying > that because the name space is defined as sixteen 8-bit binary bytes, > a comparison MUST be done for equality against the entire 16 bytes. As > a result, NetBIOS names are inherently case-sensitive. > > I agree with that statement, but would add further that under NBT (as defined > by RFC1001 and RFC1002) it is, therefore, sufficient to compare the Second > Level Encoded strings directly off the wire. > > ...but here is my question. In section 2.2.3, in the description of the > LMHosts file, there is the following bullet-point: > > * Entry Names are not case-sensitive. > > This, of course, conflicts with the earlier statement. If LMHosts are not > case-sensitive, how are they encoded in order to bypass the inherent case > sensitivity of the NBT system? > > Further, is there a standard behavior or Windows behavior used to ensure that > names are not case sensitive? > > I believe that the answer will be that Windows *always* coverts names to > uppercase before encoding them for the NBT transport, but I would like to > have that clarified in the document. > > * Does Windows convert all NetBIOS names to upper case? > * Is it possible that a NetBIOS application, running on Windows, could > bypass the conversion to upper-case? > > I believe that the answer to both of those questions will be "yes", but I > cannot find such information in [MS-NBTE]. > > Chris -)----- > ...and it's NBT, not NetBT. No one calls it NetBT except the doc author. > > -- > "Implementing CIFS - the Common Internet FileSystem" ISBN: 013047116X > Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel > jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. > ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- [email protected] > OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- [email protected] >
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