Re-Raising the mDNS patch after CIFS workshop discussion

[James Peach]

On 09/10/2007, Tim Potter <tpot at samba.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 08:20 -0700, James Peach wrote:
>
> > >> FWIW, the smb service already has a TXT record defined, according to
> > >> <http://www.dns-sd.org/ServiceTypes.html>:
> > >>
> > >> smb             Server Message Block over TCP/IP
> > >>                  Defined TXT keys: u=<username> p=<password>
> > >> path=<path>
> > >>
> > >> It doesn't look like a particularly useful set of keys and I've never
> > >> heard of anyone actually using it.
> > >
> > > Yikes...  Can we redefine this (does anything at all use this?), or
> > > will
> > > standards-based clients forever expect to parse these useless strings?
> >
> > The keys are optional. We can modify the definition if we have a
> > consensus on new keys.
>
> I can't imagine what to do with the existing keys.  Very odd.

I believe they were intended for a public share implementation.

> How about reproducing the information in smbclient -L in the TXT keys?
> I.e sharename, type (disk, printer or ipc) and comment.

The comment would be useful. I'm not too sure about the list of
shares, since it can vary depending on the user credentials.

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James Peach | jorgar at gmail.com