Re: [cifs-protocol] SR# 117072516091337 :SMB2 ECHO request

2017-07-27 Thread Andreas Schneider via cifs-protocol
On Wednesday, 26 July 2017 23:26:14 CEST Jeff McCashland wrote: > Hi Andreas, Hi Jeff, > You are correct, Windows and SMB2 allow SessionId to be 0 for ECHO, but do > not require it. It is necessary to establish a Session, but the ID does not > need to be passed with the ECHO request. Non-zero Mes

Re: [cifs-protocol] SR# 117072516091337 :SMB2 ECHO request

2017-07-27 Thread Jeff McCashland via cifs-protocol
Hi Andreas, Normally, this type of information would go into the processing rules for the Client (Section 3.2). However, the gist of what I explained below is that SMB2 doesn't have any rules for the client to process the ECHO command. The client is free to use and process ECHO as needed, as lo