[jcifs] nbtscan and mac addresses
Christopher R. Hertel
crh at ubiqx.mn.org
Wed Aug 4 17:17:14 GMT 2004
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:00:32PM +0200, Torsten Curdt wrote:
:
> >Windows systems will include the MAC address in the response to an Adapter
> >Status query. Other implementations will not do this (the results are all
> >zeros). Samba, for instance, does not provide the MAC address.
>
> I already noticed ;-)
>
> >There are
> >a lot of good reasons for this.
>
> You mean security reasons?
I think the main reason is that it's a very big pain to try and write
cross-platform code that will dig this information out of the interface
structures. :)
> But still... does jcifs support this
> additional but optional information?
See Eric's post. The information is in there...
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