findsmb PATCH -- host names can contain spaces
Gerald Carter
jerry at samba.org
Fri May 3 09:00:02 GMT 2002
On Fri, 3 May 2002 Derrell.Lipman at UnwiredUniverse.com wrote:
> This patch corrects a problem that occurs when a windows host name contains a
> space. Previously, only the first word of the host name would be displayed.
>
> NOTES:
>
> 1. It may not be "proper" to have spaces in host names, but Win98, at least,
> allows it, so findsmb should print the names correctly.)
>
> 2. There is still a likely bug where the script searches for "GROUP" but
> does not limit the search to avoid searching within the host name
> itself. This means that a host name of GROUPLEAD, for example, would
> likely match and the script would fail.
>
> 3. I really don't know perl, so there's probably a one-line (simpler) way of
> doing what's in this patch.
>
> This patch is against SAMBA_2_2 from CVS.
I thought Simo already fixed this. Is this a different bug?
cheers, jerry
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