[jcifs] SMB URL @ CIFS Conference

Conrad Minshall conrad at apple.com
Wed Aug 22 16:10:42 EST 2001


On Tuesday, August 21, 2001, at 08:10 PM, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:

> So, for example, what does smb://<w2kdomain>/ mean?  By logical 
> extension,
> it would mean "give me the browse list for the Windows 2K domain".
> Getting that list, however, is now an Active Directory call (I think)
> rather than a call to a local browser.  So, if we overload smb:// to 
> mean
> *both* NBT and non-NBT transports

Or one could say "if we unify smb://"...

Unify sounds so much better than overload :)





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