libsmbclient: Browsing and a URI spec?

[Richard Sharpe]

At 02:45 PM 1/1/01 -0600, Christopher R. Hertel wrote:
>Steve Langasek wrote:
>:
>> Will there also be a means of listing the servers in the 'current' (as
>> configured on the client), such as 'smb:///'?
>
>The existance of a default workgroup is a problem.  In some environments, 
>eg. web browsers or file managers, you might not have a default while in 
>others you would.
>
>Richard's library will look for a .smb.conf file in the user's home
>directory thus allowing for a default to be specified.  I imagine, though
>that applications developers may have their own ideas.  Eg., were Mozilla
>to adopt libsmbclient, they might want to keep their own config
>information. 
>
>So...
>
>I think the smb:/// syntax would make sense for browsing the default 
>workgroup.  Entering smb:// (two slashes) will be more 'natural' to 

OK, but smb:/// looks like you want all the shares on the default server,
although there is no such concept available.

I guess I am happy to use smb:/// but worry that it may preclude something
in the future.

>people but it will not be a problem, since they will be able to select 
>their own workgroup from the list in any case.  Another way to handle 
>this is that the application could easily start within the default 
>workgroup and offere a means for going up or down from there.
>
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