CVS update: samba/source

tridge at samba.anu.edu.au tridge at samba.anu.edu.au
Mon Nov 9 14:44:33 EST 1998


Date:	Monday November 9, 1998 @ 14:44
Author:	tridge

Update of /data/cvs/samba/source
In directory samba:/tmp/cvs-serv27544

Modified Files:
	Makefile.in 
Log Message:
converted smbclient to use clientgen.c rather than clientutil.c

I did this when I saw yet another bug report complaining about
smbclient intermittently missing files. Rather than applying more
patches to smbclient it was better to move to the more robust
clientgen.c code.

The conversion wasn't perfect, I probably lost some features of
smbclient while doing it, but at least smbclient should be consistent
now. It if fails it should _always_ fail rather than giving people the
false impression of a reliable utility.

the tar stuff seems to work, but hasn't had much testing as I never
use it myself. I'm sure someone will find bugs in my conversion of
smbtar.c. It was quite tricky as it did a lot of its own SMB calls. It
now uses clientgen.c exclusively.

smbclient is still quite messy, but at least it doesn't build its own
SMB packets.

I haven't touched smbmount as I never use it. Mike, do you want to
convert smbmount to use clientgen.c?



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