Mini C project - Digging the source ?

[Richard Sharpe]

Christopher R. Hertel wrote:

>>>Libsmbclient is based on Samba and uses a lot of samba-isms.  On any
>>>system with nmbd running, that's okay.  If I recall correctly, however,
>>>libsmbclient does things like read packets out of the unexpected packet
>>>database.  Again, this is okay on systems running nmbd.
>>>
>>Actually, I never did that, but did similarly egregious things. It no 
>>longer does anything like that.
>>
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>Ah.  Very nice.  It would be great if libsmbclient could stand alone.
>
>Um... is the SMB layer separated from the NBT layer?
>
To be honest, libsmbclient makes use if the libsmb routines. Thus, 
libsmbclient's SMB layer is as separated from MBT as libsmb's is.

I think libsmb has been coded to make it possible to do port 445 work.

>
>>>Also, libsmbclient is designed for Unix.  I know Ulf's platform, and it
>>>isn't Unix.
>>>
>>Yes, that is true :-)
>>
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>Could probably be fixed...  ;)
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libsmbclient presents a posix-like interface, but the code is all 
vanilla C code, that should port reasonably easily to other platforms, 
like VMS and the Amiga.

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