[jcifs] Encoding problem

Christopher R. Hertel crh at ubiqx.mn.org
Fri Aug 8 17:40:07 EST 2003


Michael B Allen wrote:
> 
> > Also I want to ask about the support of long shared names, I think that
> > neither Samba o JCIFS can't handler it at this time. Please help! :-)
>
> Enumerating share names longer than 12 characters or share names with non
> "ASCII" characters requires RPCs which jCIFS does not support. Changing
> the encoding properties will have no effect unless the server is also
> running in that locale.
> 
> Later versions of Samba do support RPCs for enumerating share names.

Samba 3.0.x, which is still in Alpha test phase, does support the
NetrShareEnum RPC call, IIRC.
   ^

Kmachine: There's a writeup on the workings of RAP-based share
enumeration               here: 
http://ubiqx.org/cifs/Browsing.html#BRO.4.3.3

Chris -)-----

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