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What does the SMB Pipe protocol do?

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Looking for a description on what the SMB Pipe protocol does.

Thanks!

asked 30 Jan '13, 13:15

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From the dissector code

* Routines for SMB named pipe packet dissection

So, the dissector detects and dissects access to named pipes through SMB.

For a brief description of SMB named pipes, see here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc239733.aspx

Regards
Kurt

answered 30 Jan '13, 13:23

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edited 30 Jan '13, 13:24