libsmbclient status
Richard Sharpe
rsharpe at ns.aus.com
Mon Nov 4 00:52:00 GMT 2002
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Fabien Chevalier wrote:
>
> Hi all.
> I'm curently playing with KDE smb slave, to try to improve it. It
> is based on libsmbclient, so... i am playing with libsmbclient
> too.
>
> I found some strange things with libsmbclient.
> -The first version i tried, 2.2.6, had a problem listing
> workgroups on the network. All the rest worked fine.
OK, you need to initialize your workgroup to something in ~/.smb/smb.conf,
and then it will list workgroups. At least that is how it works at the
moment in head.
This restriction could be lifted, but would require two changes:
1. The code that gets unhappy if smb.conf fails to load will need to
change.
2. If a master browser for workgroup cannot be found, then we could do a
name status query on the local node, which is not guaranteed to work, or
we could prompt for a name.
> - I then tried 3.0 alpha 20. It had the same problem. And
> moreover, it could not list the shares on a host anymore.
> - I then tried 2.2.2...and it seems to work fine.
I will have a look at what is wrong in head and see what needs fixing and
then commit some code.
> What's the current status of libsmbclient development ?
> Is there anything i can do to help solving these problems?
>
> [I thought of writing a complete benchmark test program for the
> lib could be usefull to easily detect regressions...it could the
> first thing i can do.]
>
>
>
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Regards
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