Procedure for Finding Master Browser And Workgroup List

[Richard Sharpe]

At 09:26 PM 3/27/01 -0500, Allen, Michael B (RSCH) wrote:
>How exactly should one go about extracting the list of workgroups for
>the 'smb://' URL? For example right now I do:
>
>1) Broadcast for MSBROWSE name
>2) Reverse Lookup on IP Address of response to extact called name
>3) Connect to IPC$ through CalledName<20> but if that fails connect
>to *SMBSERVER<20>
>4) Issue NetServerEnum2 with serverTypes = 0x80000000

I do it slightly differenly ... Check out smbc_opendir in libsmbclient.c in
the Samba head branch. I might need to tweak my approach a bit, though.

>Is this correct? On my network I see three responses to the initial
>MSBROWSE lookup and Win2K doesn't seem to respond to
>querying 0x80000000 for SRV_TYPE_DOMAIN_ENUM.
>
>Thanks,
>Mike
>
>

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
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Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
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