Can smbclient or libsmbclient do NetrShareEnum ?

[Rafal Szczesniak]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 11:56:34AM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Rafal Szczesniak wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 03:38:17PM -0700, David Wuertele wrote:
> > > My app needs to query Windows hosts using the NetrShareEnum RPC.  It
> > > isn't obvious from the docs whether I can accomplish this with
> > > the smbclient app or the libsmbclient.so library.  Is this
> > > implemented?  Where is the API documented?
> >
> > Nowhere, actually :)
> >
> > Yes, this function is implemented. Take a look at rpc_client/cli_srvsvc.c
> > file. Find function cli_srvsvc_net_share_enum(). That's what you're
> > looking for. Obviously, you have to learn how to properly call this
> > function, if you haven't ever done it yet (ie. establish smb session,
> > open named pipe, etc.).
> 
> Well, it would be easier if the libsmbclient (or libsmb) code would call
> this function at the appropriate point, but it doesn't as far as I am
> aware.

I believe, libsmbclient allows you to operate on smb level quite easily,
but involving rpc calls requires you to employ them just the way samba
code does.

> This will be much easier in Samba4, I suspect.

Correct, yet I didn't point at Samba4 due to its evolving nature.


cheers,
-- 
Rafal Szczesniak
Samba Team member  http://www.samba.org

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