libsmbclient status

[Andrew Bartlett]

Fabien Chevalier wrote:
> 
> Le Saturday 02 November 2002 22:05, vous avez écrit :
> > On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Fabien Chevalier wrote:
> > > Hi all.
> > > I'm curently playing with KDE smb slave, to try to improve
> > > it. It is based on libsmbclient, so... i am playing with
> > > libsmbclient too.
> > >
> > > I found some strange things with libsmbclient.
> > > -The first version i tried, 2.2.6, had a problem listing
> > > workgroups on the network. All the rest worked fine.
> > > - I then tried 3.0 alpha 20. It had the same problem. And
> > > moreover, it could not list the shares on a host anymore.
> > > - I then tried 2.2.2...and it seems to work fine.
> > >
> > > What's the current status of libsmbclient development ?
> > > Is there anything i can do to help solving these problems?
> >
> > I am holding some patches for head that I need to apply.
> >
> > Do you have a simple test program? I am interested in tracking
> > down the regressions between 2.2.2 and 2.2.6, but any fixes
> > will be applied to head now.
> 
> I do not have it yet(in fact..i have a tiny one, but it's a 5
> minutes program...not really useful for anybody except me).
> But i can write it tomorrow.
> I think of something that would
> 1- probe for the existing workgroups
> 2- try to list machines in a workgroup
> 3- try to connect to a machine and then do
> browse/read/write/whatever needs to be done for file operations
> 
> All this beeing done automagically for easy testing, with
> switches for :
> -forcing a network
> -forcing a machine
> -forcing a share
> -forcing a directory
> -forcing a file
> -forcing user-passwd
> 
> And then it would print a report to the console (optionnally to a
> file), listing the kind of test, the result (if failed the error
> code, and the libsmbclient function called with its args)
> 
> Is it something that could be useful for you?

If you can make it scriptable, and able to use a libsmbclient.so in a
non-standard location, then this would be very useful to add to the
build farm.

Andrew Bartlett

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