I am working with a legacy ASP Classic solution which is load balanced (via external hardware and has an IIS site the home directory of which is an UNC path. I've been told that the following issues with this setup currently exist: When using an UNC path as home directory, there is an "index" somewhere in IIS which "caches" up to a ce...
Hi! I've got an issue when accessing a web site, I can access it by using the NetBIOS name, but when accessing with the FQDN i get an error. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this? (There is no DNS configured yet, we have modified the Hosts file to enter the related names and IP.) ...
In short - How do I translate a NETBIOS domain to a FQDN ? Details: Assuming I'm in domain A and I have user credentials for domain B which has a trust relationship with domain A (I can authenticate the credentials). How do I get domain B's FQDN when all I have are the credentials of some authenticated user from that domain, including t...
Whenever I try to access a NTLM authenticated intranet site, Safari takes forever to process and then comes back with "The sever is unavailable" or if allowed by the site, loads with out authenticating. I can access these same sites with no problems in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. The sites are hosted on IIS6 and are being generat...
What is the easiest way to check if a computer is alive and responding (say in ping/NetBios)? I'd like a deterministic method that I can time-limit. One solution is simple access the share (File.GetDirectories(@"\compname")) in a separate thread, and kill the thread if it takes too long. ...
I think this is more a Mac networking configuration issue than anything else, but am not sure. I have Subversion set up on my Windows Home Server machine (similar to this: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/RunningASubversionServerOffYourWindowsHomeServer.aspx). This setup has been working for me for months, using Windows clients. Now I'm ...
How do I encode a link in a plaintext email to a local network resource with a space in it. For instance this will only highlight up to the word "file" but not "file name" \\SERVER\share\file name Yet if I do this \\SERVER\share\file+name or \\SERVER\share\file%20name Then Windows Explorer does not recognize the path correctly. ...
Dear all, Stupid question - apologies in advance. I have a mixed Windows and Linux dev environment, and the server is Linux (Ubuntu). Let's say the server is called 'myserver'. I develop on both Windows and *nix (Ubuntu and OS X), with references to myserver as 'myserver.local' on *nix, and 'myserver' on Windows. I have shared code ...
Hi alls, I would like to encode "ITSATEST" to it's netbios name value in python; The occurence table and explication are here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194203 I dont know how this could be done easily in python, someone can give me a hand ? Thanks ! ...
Hello. I'm working with Microchip's TCP/IP stack and the host name of my device is not being broadcasted, although I can access it using its DHCP assigned IP. So the question is, what is the protocol that a network device uses to broadcast its host name, so that when I see a list of devices in a network I can identify it by name? ...
I have several windows machines identified by ip address. I would like to write an application that query the computers remotely and gets their name. I cannot rely on DNS because it does not provide exact results. I heard that there is a NetBIOS API that can be used, but I am not familiar with this API. ...
I'm working under a domain, and im making an app that changes ip from 1 to 253 until it finds an available, unconfliced ip (where it get's ping response from the domain, it tries to ping it each time it changes ip), this part works. the problem is, that i dont want the program to override an ip address that is used by other computers tha...
I'm in the process of creating a port scanning/ip scanning tool for iphone. One thing that i haven't been able to do is to get the netbios name for an ip. Is there an easy way to do it?Or do i have to craft my own netbios request over udp using asyncudpsocket library? If so can someone guide me how to do that , to create a netbios reques...
Hi Everyones, I'm trying to create a simple script that will convert a string (max 15 chars) to a netbios name (see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194203) : name = sys.argv[1].upper() converted = ''.join([chr((ord(c)>>4) + ord('A'))+chr((ord(c)&0xF) + ord('A')) for c in name]) print converted Trying to convert the name : "testing" w...
I got this issue figuring out how to build a regexp for verifying a netbios name. According to the ms standard these characters are illegal \/:*?"<>| So, thats what I'm trying to detect. My regex is looking like this ^[\\\/:\*\?"\<\>\|]$ But, that wont work. Can anyone point me in the right direction? (not regexlib.com please...) A...