[Samba] Re: Detecting Samba server from Windows?

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Jordan Russell wrote:

> That's not useful. For one thing, changing fstype from NTFS can impact
> "compatibility with Windows NT" as eluded to in the docs, and also,
> requiring users to modify their Samba configuration just so my program
> can detect Samba would defeat the whole purpose of auto-detecting Samba
> in the first place. I might as well just ask users to manually specify
> whether shares are Samba shares!

Samba servers reply to the name __SAMBA__.  this might help you.
Other than that you could add something to the server string.



cheers, jerry
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