[jcifs] Listing servers of a domain

[Del Merritt]

> Del Merritt <del <at> alum.mit.edu> writes:
>>
>> Florian wrote:
>> > The documentation says that it's possible to list the servers of a
>> > workgroup via
>> > the (NetBIOS-)workgroup-name.
>> > Is that although possible for a domain?
>> > Do I have to use the NetBIOS-domainname in the url
>> > (smb://<NetBIOS-domainname>/)
>> > for that?
>> > I did a test and the DNS-domainname doesn't work!
>>
>> Ayup; the only difference between a domain and workgroup is
>> authentication.
>>
>> One thing you need to do is to strip off the "hostname" portion.  E.g.,
>> if
>> your domain is:
>>
>>    foo.wonder.bar.com
>>
>> Then what you present is "foo" and not "foo.wonder.bar.com".
>>
>> -Del
>>
>>
>
> Thanks Del for the fast answer.
> But I think that's not that easy.
> After a closer look, it seems to me, that it isn't possible to follow the
> NetBIOS-domainname from the DNS-domainname how you described, especially
> not in
> "upgraded" domains. There are domains out there, where the
> NetBIOS-/pre-win 2000
> domainname has nothing in common with the DNS-domainname.
>
> What do the others think?

Sorry, you are correct that technically there is no direct correlation
between a DNS domain name and the "internal" domain/workgroup name.  In my
particular organization, we currently keep IT sane[sic] by having the DNS
domain name's hostname map directly to the domain name.

This is pretty well described in Implementing CIFS:

   http://ubiqx.org/cifs/index.html

I'll let you find the exact link.  It's one of the Joys of CIFS.

-Del