[jcifs] Question about listFiles[] when used to list shares

Karl Wright kwright at metacarta.com
Wed Nov 1 03:26:31 GMT 2006



> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:09:11 -0500
> Karl Wright <kwright at metacarta.com> wrote:
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>>Hi Mr. Allen,
>>
>>My name is Karl Wright.  I'm using the 1.2.9 jcifs library to access 
>>windows and samba shares in order to pull content into a search engine. 
>>  However, I'm having some difficulty and I was wondering if you had any 
>>suggestions.  Specifically, when I use SmbFile.listFiles() to get a list 
>>of the available shares, I don't see all of them, if there are a lot. 
>>For the case I am trying here, I see all but two.  This is borne out by 
>>the response packet, which I've printed out here:
>>
>>Response was: 
>>NetShareEnumResponse[command=SMB_COM_TRANSACTION,received=false,errorCode=0,flags=0x0090,flags2=0xC003,signSeq=0,tid=2048, 
>>pid=28108,uid=2048,mid=3,wordCount=10,byteCount=2078,totalParameterCount=8,totalDataCount=2069,parameterCount=8, 
>>parameterOffset=56,parameterDisplacement=0,dataCount=2069,dataOffset=64,dataDisplacement=0,setupCount=0,pad=1,pad1=0, 
>>status=0,converter=62954,entriesReturned=54,totalAvailableEntries=56]
>>
>>
>>Note that the totalAvailableEntries field is correct (56), but the 
>>entriesReturned is too small (54).  How would I retrieve *all* the share 
>>names?  It looks to me like the maxDataCount field might set an upper 
>>bound on the amount of data that can be retrieved in one call to the 
>>server - is there any way to request more, either by increasing that 
>>amount, or by making more requests?
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Karl
>>
>>
>>
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