client: browse doesn't work with only win98 in workgroup

Richard Sharpe rsharpe at richardsharpe.com
Sat Mar 1 21:48:36 GMT 2003


On Sat, 1 Mar 2003 Derrell.Lipman at UnwiredUniverse.com wrote:

> "Christopher R. Hertel" <crh at ubiqx.mn.org> writes:
> 
> I'm working on providing a tree-style view of the network in a fashion similar
> to what Windows Explorer does.  The top level of an SMB/CIFS network is
> something like "Microsoft Windows Network".  The next level down is the list
> of workgroups/domains within the network; then the hosts within each
> workgroup; then the shares within each share, etc.  I don't know what version
> of Windows will be the master browser, and I don't want to force it by using
> Samba as the master browser.  Therefore I have to be able to enumerate the
> hosts within a workgroup regardless of what versions of Windows happen to be
> on the network.

Hmmm, are you using libsmbclient?

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
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