[9fans] Re TO_DO

[9fans] Re TO_DO

[plan9fans]

Hi,

I am crawling up the (grubby) learning curve of CIFS
with a view to re-writing/fixing/updating a CIFS client
I have from the labs.

As supplied it nearly works, supporting Unicode and long
filenames but no user/group names or meaningfull file modes.

The major problem is still the sketchy docco - though this
has improved, there is still no single "protocol spec".

-Steve

Re: [9fans] Re TO_DO

[Dave Lukes]

> I am crawling up the (grubby) learning curve of CIFS
> with a view to re-writing/fixing/updating a CIFS client
> I have from the labs.

Good luck:-(.

> As supplied it nearly works, supporting Unicode and long
> filenames but no user/group names or meaningfull file modes.

Wow!  I'm impressed!

> The major problem is still the sketchy docco - though this
> has improved, there is still no single "protocol spec".

Pragmatically, you don't care about CIFS or some random document:
what you care about "can it connect to Win95/98/NT/ME/2K/XP/..."?

samba's smbd has a bucketload (i.e. ~~10) options to control
exactly which permutation of SMB/CIFS it supports,
which is very little help.
IM_H_O, we need a "which particular set of braindamage?" enumeration
somewhere in all SMB clients and servers.

Cheers,
	Dave.