smb://

[Christopher R. Hertel]

> "Christopher R. Hertel" wrote:
> > ...
> > Then I think we have reached consensus.  Somewhat informally:
> > 
> >   smb://[<server>/[service/[path/][file/]]]
> > 
> >   <server>  :== [[ntdomain;]user[:password]@]<srvname>[:port]
> > 
> >   <srvname> :== <NBTname> | <DNSname> | <IP>
> > 
> >   <NBTname> :== NetBIOS-name [.scope]
> >   <DNSname> :== hostname [.domain]
> >   <IP>      :== nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
> > ...
> 
> This looks good.  The only addition I would make (if it makes any
> difference) is to generalize the "ntdomain" field to be an NT
> domain or workgroup, not just the NT domain.

Not necessary, since the purpose of the ntdomain field is to identify the 
authentication server.  If it's a workgroup, then the server itself (that 
is, <srvname>) will do the authentication.

Chris -)-----

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