[jcifs] Group name queries.

Michael B Allen mba2000 at ioplex.com
Wed Jan 21 08:55:04 GMT 2004


Christopher R. Hertel said:
>> > I want to know
>> > the IPs of all of the nodes that have registered a given name.
>>
>> Can't do it.
>
> Curious to know at what level the "can't" drops into the works.  I can do
> what I want in C, so I'm assuming that this is a design conflict.

It's not really a design conflict, it just was never done.JCIFS never
needed such a thing.

Also it's a little unorthadox to broadcast a groupname lookup like that. I
don't think NetBIOS was meant to be used in that way. Is there a procedure
for it in RFC 1002?

Mike



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