[jcifs] Re: [OT] Java Based Master Browser
Christopher R. Hertel
crh at ubiqx.mn.org
Sun Feb 9 05:35:56 EST 2003
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 09:03:29AM -0500, Matthew Tippett wrote:
> What sort of effort is required?
To be honest, I don't know. Here's what I can tell you:
1) We'd need to provide client-side NetBIOS name services.
This would require a simple daemon listening on port 137. If you want
to have it talk to a WINS server then it would need a little more work
but basically all it needs to do is announce names, respond to queries,
and defend the names if some other device tries to claim them. If your
product is not a multi-homed host then you're in great shape.
Multi-homed adds some work (again, not much).
2) We would need to figure out and implement the protocols used by the
LMB. This is the bigger part because I simply don't know (yet) how
much trouble this is. I had better know by the end of the month,
though, because that's the deadline for my book and this *will* be
covered.
3) None of the above should conflict with jCIFS operations as jCIFS is (at
this point) strictly client code. On the other hand, jCIFS routines
could be used to build parts of this. The building blocks are there.
There's a lot of "I don't know" in the above. I do know that it's
do-able. I don't know how much work it will be.
Chris -)-----
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