[cifs-protocol] Identifying Matching Share Subtrees

[Scott Goldstein]

I'm definitely familiar with this method call.  In fact, this is the way
our tool is currently implemented.  Though, I was looking for a
non-windows, standard CIFS way to accomplish the same functionality for
two reasons:

1.  To allow the tool to be used for machines which do not run Windows
or with are NAS
2.  The Windows APIs require certain privileges when calling them to get
the local path.  Ideally, we would want to run our tool with a somewhat
lower privilege level.

So, if I understand you correctly, you don't know of a way to do this in
pure CIFS?

Given that, do you know if most server implementations of CIFS, which
are not windows, support some flavor of these rpc calls?

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald (Jerry) Carter [mailto:jerry at samba.org] 
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 3:06 PM
To: Scott Goldstein
Cc: cifs-protocol at cifs.org
Subject: RE: [cifs-protocol] Identifying Matching Share Subtrees

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On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Scott Goldstein wrote:

> Excuse my lack of knowledge here, but when you say use the 
> "GetShareInfo() rpc", are you referring to something in the CIFS 
> protocol itself or a method on a particular CIFS client?  If it's the 
> former, is there a open source CIFS client which exposes this portion
of 
> the protocol?

Scott,

I was referring to the NetShareGetInfo() RPC call provided on the
\srvsvc pipe.  

For example, Samba's rpcclient provides this:

$ bin/rpcclient rain -I 127.0.0.1 -U% -c 'netsharegetinfo public'
netname: public
        remark: Public Access
        path:   C:\export\u1\public
        password:
        type:   0x0
        perms:  0
        max_uses:       -1
        num_uses:       1
....

MS-RPC is not part of CIFS per say.  But pretty much a requirement
to get anything done with MS servers.




cheers, jerry
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