libsmbclient and IP numbers

[Richard Sharpe]

I will try to have a look at this later today.

In the meantime, it would be helpful if we could have a trace of what is 
going on.

David Vest wrote:

>>>>>smbc_opendir("smb://<insert IP here>/); it fails! Is this not
>>>>>
> supported?
> 
>>>>It works perfectly here (cvs version from before the weekend). What
>>>>
>>>version are
>>>
>>>>you using ?
>>>>
>>>I've tried checking out SAMBA_2_2 and HEAD, compiled with configure;
>>>
> make
> 
>>>libsmbclient
>>>copied it to /usr/lib along with libsmbclient.h to /usr/include. Then I
>>>
> run
> 
>>>ldconfig. But it still don't work!
>>>
>>><CODE>
>>>int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>>>{
>>>  char* url = "smb://130.236.226.13/";
>>>  int nDirEnt;
>>>
>>>  err =  smbc_init(auth_fn,  10);
>>>  nDirEnt = smbc_opendir(url);
>>>  printf("%d",nDirEnt);
>>>}
>>></CODE>
>>>
>>My guess is that the IP will work against a Samba box, but not against
>>NT.  Can you verify.  With NT, you need a name for the NetBIOS session
>>request.  smbd doesn't actually require this.
>>
>>
> I have tested connecting with IP against both win2k and samba (samba the
> most) and I get the same result, failure.
> 
> /David
> 
> 
> 


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