[jcifs] Re: smb printers with jcifs

[Christopher R.Hertel]

The message below is from a friend in Germany.

There must be a way to distinguish printers vs. disks, since smbclient can
tell the difference.

$ smbclient -L zathras
Added interface ip=10.0.1.0 bcast=10.0.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Password: 

	Sharename      Type      Comment
	---------      ----      -------
	HOME           Disk      User Files
	D              Disk      D drive
	C              Disk      C drive
	PRINTER$       Disk      
	HP560C         Printer   HP Deskjet 560 C Color Printer
	IPC$           IPC       Remote Inter Process Communication

The above is on my home network, with node Zathras being a W/95 box with a
single printer attached.

Curious.  I figure it's worth knowing how it's done.

Chris -)-----

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 04:39:23PM +0200, Michael Schulze wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> a guy here at work tries to explore the available printers on a server. I 
> pointed him to jCifs and tried to help him but the problem is that with a 
> printer share jCifs returns this as directory (attributes=0x11). Do you know 
> how to sort out the printers with jCifs ?
> 
> thanks
> 	Michael

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