samba-2, samba-3 client and WXP share name length limitation

[Christopher R. Hertel]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:51:21AM +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 08:32, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> > David Wuertele wrote:
> > | Andrew> Enumeration of shares over RPC.
> > |
> > | Andrew> There was a patch for smbclient at one point, but for some
> > | Andrew> reason it never got in.
> > |
> > | Do you have any references to this patch?  I STFW but did not find it.
> > |
> > | Andrew> This should be in bugzilla, but if it's not, add it.
> > |
> > | I looked around the zilla, and didn't find it, so I added it.
> > 
> > I closed this since I would rather just keep smbdclient as
> > smbclient and not the 'son of rpcclient'.  If net can't
> > enumerate shares using rpc, it should.  We'll fix it there.
> 
> Sorry - I object.
> 
> The problem is that we have a user interface expectation that this
> works.  We would have to remove all the share enumeration from
> 'smbclient' if we do this.  As a very strong rule we don't change
> command line behaviour etc of our utilities, so why for an issue only of
> linker size do we need to do this?
> 
> Why should our users have to care if the call was made over RAP or RPC?

I agree with Andrew on this one.  In this case, it's not a question of 
under-the-hood workings as much as user expectation.  Basically, from a 
"does it give me the expected output" perspective, smbclient is currently 
broken.

Urq.

Chris -)-----

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