DCERPC binding strings ---------------------- When connecting to a dcerpc service you need to specify a binding string. The format is: TRANSPORT:host[flags] where TRANSPORT is either ncacn_np for SMB or ncacn_ip_tcp for RPC/TCP "host" is an IP or hostname or netbios name. If the binding string identifies the server side of an endpoint, "host" may be an empty string. "flags" can include a SMB pipe name if using the ncacn_np transport or a TCP port number if using the ncacn_ip_tcp transport, otherwise they will be auto-determined. other recognised flags are: sign : enable ntlmssp signing seal : enable ntlmssp sealing spnego : use SPNEGO instead of NTLMSSP authentication krb5 : use KRB5 instead of NTLMSSP authentication connect : enable rpc connect level auth (auth, but no sign or seal) validate : enable the NDR validator print : enable debugging of the packets bigendian : use bigendian RPC padcheck : check reply data for non-zero pad bytes Here are some examples: ncacn_np:myserver ncacn_np:myserver[samr] ncacn_np:myserver[\pipe\samr] ncacn_np:myserver[/pipe/samr] ncacn_np:myserver[samr,sign,print] ncacn_np:myserver[sign,spnego] ncacn_np:myserver[\pipe\samr,sign,seal,bigendian] ncacn_np:myserver[/pipe/samr,seal,validate] ncacn_np: ncacn_np:[/pipe/samr] ncacn_ip_tcp:myserver ncacn_ip_tcp:myserver[1024] ncacn_ip_tcp:myserver[sign,seal] ncacn_ip_tcp:myserver[spnego,seal] IDEA: Maybe extend UNC names like this? smbclient //server/share smbclient //server/share[sign,seal,spnego]