[jcifs] Problems with Wins Resolution

[Christopher R. Hertel]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:38:18AM -0400, Michael B. Allen wrote:
:
> > ...unless there was a default workgroup.  The default workgroup, by the
> > way, is not part of the SMB URL.  Samba and Windows have a default
> > workgroup already, so this would just bring jCIFS up-to-speed in that
> > sense.
> 
> Am I hearing you correctly?  Wouldn't that really screw up the
> semantics? If you get the servers who are members of your default
> workgroup using just 'smb://' then how do you get the workgroup list?

If that's what you're hearing then I'm doing a really lousy job of 
explaining.  :)

No, I'm really not suggesting mangling the semantics of the SMB URL.  I'm
saying that if the client software (jCIFS, whatever) has a default
workgroup name then that name could be used by the client code to find the
DMB and grab the workgroup list from that, just as would be done using an
LMB.  The default workgroup name is part of the application...nothing to 
do with the SMB URL.

So, given the string "SMB://", the client might first look for the
MSBROWSE name.  If that is not found, then the client could look for 
<default_wg>#1D (likely futile since the MSBROWSE name wasn't found) and 
the <default_wg>#1B name (last ditch).  If the <default_wg>#1B name is 
found (via the NBNS), then the client would query for the browse list, and 
present just the list of workgroups.

Am I making any more sense?  :)

Chris -)-----

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