[Samba] get file information from smb share

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Razvan Cosma wrote:

>    Hello,
>   I (and probably everyone else) noticed that right-clicking on a file 
> located on a remote share (at least in the windows explorer) provides a 
> lot of useful info besides the size & access rights. It does that 
> without transferring the entire file, so what I'm wondering if there is 
> a way to access that info using libsmbclient (meaning: is this part of 
> the smb/cifs protocol specification or just a explorer feature)?

Probably be reading the header of the file.  Take a network trace and see 
what traffic is generated.




cheers, jerry
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