I'm trying to upgrade an smbclient-based share crawler I've written to libsmbclient and Alain's perl Filesys::SmbClient package. This is for the Georgia Tech campus network, so the crawler will span multiple subnets.
The problem I'm having is that about half of the clients I query won't recognize an IP based smb URL like this: smb://128.61.xxx.xxx/share/. The campus WINS server is flaky, plus there are many duplicate hostnames over the various subnets, so using it isn't really the answer in this scenario. What I need is some way to write the URL with the hostname like this: smb://hostname/share, and pass in the IP address to try to connect to. Sort of like doing this in smbclient: smbclient //hostname/share -I 128.61.xxx.xxx Is there some way to do this that I'm missing? Thanks in advance, Mike Rosack www.sacknet.org www.buzzsearch.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]