This sort of thing is trivial to write using the jCIFS Java library, but that's because jCIFS was written from scratch to be a client toolkit and because Java being Java we can do things like multi-thread the crawler.
You might look to jCIFS for examples... http://jcifs.samba.org/ Chris -)----- On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 06:31:57PM -0400, Sean Finney wrote: > hi all-- > > i've been ghosting this list for a few months now, hoping that i might > read an answer to my question without having to step up and ask, but > now i'm guessing that this won't be the case, so here goes... > > i'd like to write an application in C that does something along the > lines of crawling a local area network, finding smb sharing computers > and enumerating shares. the closest things i've been able to find to > a starting point are LinNeighborhood and xsmbrowser. the former relies on > smbmount and smbfs (which i'd like to avoid for portability issues), and > the latter appears to be a tcl/tk wrapper around smbclient. i suppose i > could just write this as a perl script, but i'd much rather keep it in > the mother tongue if i could... > > i've also taken a peek at libsmbclient, and browsed much of the other > source code, and haven't had much luck with getting things rolling, apart > from just taking a full copy of the samba source and hacking away at > the client until it does what i want it to. is there something i've missed? > > thanks for your time > --sean -- Samba Team -- http://www.samba.org/ -)----- Christopher R. Hertel jCIFS Team -- http://jcifs.samba.org/ -)----- ubiqx development, uninq. ubiqx Team -- http://www.ubiqx.org/ -)----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OnLineBook -- http://ubiqx.org/cifs/ -)----- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
