libsmbclient: Browsing and a URI spec?

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Steve Langasek wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Allen, Michael B (RSCH) wrote:
>
> >>> Yes but what if your domain is different from your workgroup as is the case
> >>> for me.
>
> > > Well, the 'workgroup' string from smb.conf is used for both the workgroup and
> > > the domain.  AFAIK, under NT you can't be a member of a different workgroup
> > > than the one associated with your NT domain
>
> > What do you man by "associated with"? I am on a network where the domain
> > with which I authenticate is different (meaning the actually name of it is
> > different) from the workgroup name my machine registers with WINS.
>
> By 'associated with', I mean 'bearing the same name as'.  If you have an NT
> domain called 'FOO', members of that domain will appear in the workgroup 'FOO'
> on the network.  Win9x machines may also appear in the workgroup 'FOO', but
> they are not part of the domain.
>
> Do you have an NT box where this workgroup/domain split is evident, or is it
> only Win9x boxes?  I've only ever seen this on Win9x, where 'domain logons'
> really mean 'password server ='.
>
> > Apparently this is a rare arrangement but I believe the reasoning is to break up
> > groups by workgroup and then authenticate all users centrally under a
> > common domain. Presumably this domain information is retrieved from the
> > domain controller when I log in but I don't know the details.
>
> I actually have a similar situation at work.  We wanted to start moving our
> Win9x boxes over to do NT domain logon when users log in, so that
> authenticating to network resources (all of which were part of the domain by
> now) worked more smoothly.  At the same time, users wanted to be able to share
> files between one another in their existing workgroup, and this was just fine
> with me, because I rather preferred that their netbios names didn't show up
> when querying browse lists of machines that had public IPs. :)
>
> > > how is a setting for the default domain useful, other than
> > > to specify the credentials of the default username?
>
> >It's not. True. It would only be usefull for smbclient(and perhaps smbclient.so).
> >But in at least my case a domain parameter would be applicable to all users
> >on a system as they too would all authenticate under the same domain. Might
> >be a little confusing for people setting up servers but you might call it
> >something else.
>
> Hmm.  I can see where this would have some value.  I'm just not sure how to
> integrate it into the structure of smb.conf. Hmm. :/  Anyone else have a good
> idea for how to do this? :)

may be:

 auth domain = FOO

?

>
> Steve Langasek
> postmodern programmer
>
>
>

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