> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher R. Hertel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 4:26 PM
> To: Michael B. Allen
> Cc: Stephan Kulow; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [jcifs] Re: SMB URL
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:42:34AM -0500, Michael B. Allen wrote:
> :
> > > The other part missing is the query handling. Currently libsmbclient relies
> > > on ~/.smb/smb.conf for the workgroup (which is a bit problematic when you
> > > want to copy files from one workgroup to another from a linux client ;(
> > > Above that it gives a ?WORKGROUP=COOLO - no such file
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand this. Do you mean domain? Does libsmbclient
> > support the forms:
> >
> > smb://domain;user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/share/path/to/file
> >
> > and
> >
> > smb://workgroup/
>
> I'm just throwing in a side-comment on terminology...
>
> After a lot of discussion I (personally) have settled on the following:
>
> Workgroup: The scope of the browse environment.
> NT Domain: An authentication domain.
>
> It's flakey, but the terminology is flakey to begin with.
>
This is how I always distinguished workgroups and domains.
Mike
