Directory listing in libsmbclient.so

[Welsh, Armand]

So the question is, can browsing be defined as a funtion of the smb
protocol?  Now that I have put some thaught into it beyond the quick replies
earlier, I would have to say, yes.  Because smb w/o netbios is no longer
smb, but rather CIFS. So if SMB is specific to the netbios service, then
it's probably acceptable to say that workgroup browsing is part of SMB.  So
with that, I reject my previous comments, and position on the use of nmb://
or nbbs://, becase netbios is required by SMB, so it would not be wrong to
wrap it up into one overloaded protocol.  Afterall, we don't use a dns://
protocol to browse dns zones....

Sorry to flip flop so quickly, but such is the life of a busy thread.. :)

Armand


-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Christopher R. Hertel [mailto:crh at nts.umn.edu]
-> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 10:27 AM
-> To: Welsh, Armand
-> Cc: 'Christopher R. Hertel'; Samba Technical
-> Subject: Re: Directory listing in libsmbclient.so
-> 
-> 
-> Please note that my comments were against doing this, as I 
-> see no reason 
-> to introduce two different URIs where one will suffice.
-> 
-> Chris -)-----
-> 
-> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
-> > ah yes, nbbs:// = net bios browsing service, sounds even 
-> better.  Good
-> > point, it's easy to forget that the protocol name, should 
-> reflect the
-> > protocol, not an application.  :)
-> > 
-> > All in favor? 
-> > 
-> > -> -----Original Message-----
-> > -> From: Christopher R. Hertel [mailto:crh at nts.umn.edu]
-> > -> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 8:50 AM
-> > -> To: Kevin Colby
-> > -> Cc: Samba Technical
-> > -> Subject: Re: Directory listing in libsmbclient.so
-> > -> 
-> > -> My thoughts exactly.  There is space (in the sense of 
-> > -> namespace) for the
-> > -> overloading that has been proposed.
-> > -> 
-> > -> Oh, and the term 'nmb' is a Samba-ism.  It would nbns:// for 
-> > -> the name 
-> > -> service but that would also not be accurate for 
-> browsing.  Perhaps 
-> > -> nbbs:// ?
-> > 
-> 
-> 
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-> Christopher R. Hertel -)-----                   University 
-> of Minnesota
-> crh at nts.umn.edu              Networking and 
-> Telecommunications Services
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