ddrgen and Windows Vista

I had the oppertunity to do some preliminary testing of ddrgen with Windows Vista Beta 2, seeing as Microsoft made it a public beta. At the moment, there’s no need for special detection techniques to be employed, as Vista reports a lot more information about itself over NetBIOS. All versions of ddrgen should show Vista’s edition (ie: “Home Basic”, “Home Premium”, “Ultimate”, etc.) and build number. In the case of builds number, Beta 2’s build number is 5384.

Presently, x86\_64 detection of Windows XP is done by the build number only - Windows XP x86\_64 reports as having the same build number as a Windows 2003 SP1 system (3790). Windows XP x86 doesn’t report a build number at all. I haven’t downloaded the x86_64 build of Windows Vista yet, but due to it’s size it’s unlikely I will soon.

I intend to do some further work on it, where I will include the build number to beta version translation. This will also be included for any further betas or release candidates I gain access to, and get around to examining.

Do you have access to Vista or Longhorn betas? Mind doing me a favour?

I’m looking for more information about what all the Vista and Longhorn betas are numbered. I’d love to be able to detect them all. I don’t want you to send me copies of Vista or Longhorn. All you need to do is send me an email with:

• The output of smbclient -gNL [ip address] from a computer with Samba installed, where the IP address is that of the Vista/Longhorn box. For example: smbclient -gNL 192.168.1.5. Make sure there is at least one folder shared from the Vista/Longhorn system.
• The build number, version number, edition (eg: Starter, Home Premium, Ultimate) and architecture (x86 or x86_64/32-bit or 64-bit) of the installation.
• Any additional information about the build (was it a public beta, or is it a leaked or private beta version?)

Thanks!

ddrgen Development Version

By popular demand, there’s a new development snapshot of ddrgen out (2006-06-10), after about a year since the first release. It has some bugs that need ironing out, but there’s some code there which is a vast improvement over 1.0.0. It supports game scanning too, however I’d recommend disabling it in larger networks, due to the very long time it takes to do it, with lots of firewalled computers.

You can read all about it on the ddrgen page.