When is network browsing supported again?

Christopher R. Hertel crh at samba.org
Mon Oct 21 14:26:00 MDT 2013


On 10/21/2013 02:09 PM, Stef Bon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm writing a fuse fs using the samba4 client library calls.
> 
> Now the paths smb:// and smb://workgroup and smb://server do not give you
> any result (with a smbc_opendir/smbc_readdir call)
> 
> Is the ability to "browse the network" to be supported again?
> 
> Stef
> 

smb:// *should* give you the browse list, but I don't believe that it was
never implemented.  smb://server should work, but smb://workgroup may fall
into the same category as smb://

...but make sure that the Browse Service is actually running on your LAN.

Chris -)-----

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