Perl bindings for libsmbclient

David Barth dbarth at idealx.com
Tue Oct 12 11:29:59 GMT 2004


Andrew Bartlett wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 03:43, David Barth wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I'd like to develop Perl bindings for libsmbclient, and would like some 
>>advice from the list.
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>FileSys::SmbClient isn't good enough?  (Actually, it needs porting to
>the new API).
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Not really. It only access remote filesystems, but I don't see how I can 
invoke RPC with this wrapper.
I will contact the author to see if he wants to add these features.

>However, some of the things you seem to talk about are beyond the
>purpose of libsmbclient, but you just happen to find in the library. 
>Watch out, these can and will change without notice...
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Yes, I understand that many functions I need are more in utils/net than 
in the pure smbclient library.
What's going to happen ?! Are you talking about the samba4 branch ?
-- 
dbarth


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