findsmb PATCH -- host names can contain spaces

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri May 3 09:00:02 GMT 2002


On Fri, 3 May 2002 Derrell.Lipman at UnwiredUniverse.com wrote:

> This patch corrects a problem that occurs when a windows host name contains a
> space.  Previously, only the first word of the host name would be displayed.
> 
> NOTES:
> 
>   1. It may not be "proper" to have spaces in host names, but Win98, at least,
>      allows it, so findsmb should print the names correctly.)
>   
>   2. There is still a likely bug where the script searches for "GROUP" but
>      does not limit the search to avoid searching within the host name
>      itself.  This means that a host name of GROUPLEAD, for example, would
>      likely match and the script would fail.
> 
>   3. I really don't know perl, so there's probably a one-line (simpler) way of
>      doing what's in this patch.
> 
> This patch is against SAMBA_2_2 from CVS.

I thought Simo already fixed this.  Is this a different bug?






cheers, jerry
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