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Reputation: 1385

What does the word NTSTATUS mean?

This is a very basic question; I just ran across the term in the context of a Wireshark capture and I just want to know what the word NTSTATUS means. Every search result I have found explains what different NTSTATUS codes indicate; none of them bother to explain what the word NTSTATUS actually refers to. Also, what does the NT stand for?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 972

Answers (3)

Jonathon Reinhart
Jonathon Reinhart

Reputation: 137438

"NT" comes from Windows NT, where it originally meant "New Technology".

You're most likely seeing it in Wireshark captures on a Windows network, where the SMB protocol is in use. Because Microsoft was involved in much of the early development, the common NTSTATUS error codes made their way into the protocol.

Upvotes: 1

Adjit
Adjit

Reputation: 10305

I believe it may have something to do with the Windows NT Operating system.

I am not 100% sure of this, but here is some information about Windows NT. I had remembered seeing some of the error codes mentioning Windows NT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT

Windows has never given a formal definition for what the NT stands for but speculation has it that it stands for "New Technology".

See this article for reference: http://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/definition/Windows-NT

Upvotes: 1

Remus Rusanu
Remus Rusanu

Reputation: 294307

NT stands for Windows NT. NTSTATUS is the error/return type for the Windows NT code base.

Upvotes: 0

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