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3.3.1 SMB Format

Richard Sharpe of the Samba team defines SMB as a "request-response" protocol.[ 4] In effect, this means that a client sends an SMB request to a server, and the server sends an SMB response back to the client. Rarely does a server send a message that is not in response to a client.

[4] See https://anu.samba.org/cifs/docs/what-is-smb.html for Richard's excellent summary of SMB.

An SMB message is not as complex as you might think. Let's take a closer look at the internal structure of such a message. It can be broken down into two parts: the header, which is a fixed size, and the command string, whose size can vary dramatically based on the contents of the message.

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