DCOM/DCE/RPC

[Jimmy O'Regan]

Thomas Hergenhahn wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>in issue 170 of your weekly newsleeter, I read about your difficulties to get at the specifications 
>for DCOM/DCE/RPC wire protocol.
>I think that the following information might be of some interest to you:
>
>1. There is project named FreeDCE on sourceforge. As far as I saw most recent CVS entries are 
>about 21 months of age.
>
>2. I found the following article which describes how to build a DCOM client on Linux using 
>FreeDCE:
>http://www.idevresource.com/com/library/articles/comonlinux.asp
>This article also confirms that the wire protocol is the same RPC protocol that FreeDCE 
>implements. The example client does not use the NTLM authentication, so it could connect only 
>to a server that is configured to grant access/launch without authentication.
>
>3. The samba project has an rpcclient that can list printer drivers, remote shut down a machine 
>and more things. It uses authentication and so I suppose it implements NTLM.
>  
>
The samba project also has pidl 
(http://pserver.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/pidl/) which can make ethereal 
sniffers from IDL files.