[Samba] How to identify the operating system of a client?
Stephan Roth
stephan.roth at ee.ethz.ch
Mon Feb 11 09:26:31 UTC 2019
Let me rephrase the question in hope for an answer:
Is it at all feasible to identify the operating system of a client?
Thanks,
Stephan
On 30.01.19 15:28, Stephan Roth via samba wrote:
> My goal is to distinguish between Mac and Windows clients on a Samba
> server in order to provide shares with vfs_fruit only to Mac clients.
>
> So I assumed using the variable substitution %a which contains the
> architecture of the remote machine would be the correct way forward.
> But as it turns out, a Windows 10 client is reported as having the
> architecture "OSX".
>
> Short of agressively scanning a remote client with nmap, does anyone
> have a suggestion on how to solve this problem?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Stephan
>
> I'm using Samba 4.5.12-Debian
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