smblib outdated?

Yimin Chen ymchen at cisco.com
Fri Mar 19 23:34:28 GMT 2004


I would like to use smblib to do NTLM authentication. Does libsmbclient 
provide the same functionality?

Thanks,
Yimin

Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Yimin Chen wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I looked at the last modified time of smblib tar balls, and it is 1996! 
>>Is there more updated version somewhere or the development on this 
>>library has stopped?
> 
> 
> Development of the library has definitely stopped ...
>  
> 
>>I searched the samba source code, and found only limited number files 
>>from smblib. Is it that we should not use the smb library anymore?
> 
> 
> It depends on what you want to do? libsmbclient might do what you want.
> 
> Regards
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