RE: samba winpopup script

["Andrej Borsenkow" <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>]

>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to build a script to notify all users on a LAN of network
> conditions through the winpopup protocol. To get all users connected to
> the samba server from which the winpopup messages will be sent I must
> parse smbstatus' output:
>
> 	Premier      nobody   nogroup  20067   sophia08
> (192.168.5.100) Mon Apr  2 17:34:43 2001
> 	Premier      nobody   nogroup  20079   dev03
> (192.168.0.136) Mon Apr  2 17:39:33 2001
> 	Premier      nobody   nogroup  20124   info09
> (192.168.0.221) Mon Apr  2 18:00:01 2001
> 	Premier      nobody   nogroup   7827   lnc_siege
> (192.168.0.70) Tue Mar 27 16:54:29 2001
> 	[etc.]
>
> And invoke:
>
> 	% echo $MESSAGE | smbclient -M $MACHINE -I $IP
>
> I started writing a script:
>
> 	MESSAGE="test"
> 	for i in `smbstatus | grep '(\w\+\.\w\+\.\w\+\.\w\+)' `; do
> 		echo $i | read SHARE USER GROUP MACHINE IP JUNK
> 		echo $MESSAGE | smbclient -M $MACHINE -I $IP
> 	done
>
> But $i contains each inidividual element of the smbstatus output, not
> each line. How could I capture each line into $i and the read the
> elements?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help, cheers,
>
> PS: I'd like the script to be compatible with /bin/sh ideally
>

Offhand - smbstatus definetely needs "no header" option like many others have.

smbstatus | grep '(\w\+\.\w\+\.\w\+\.\w\+)' | while read SHARE USER GROUP
MACHINE IP JUNK
do
   ... bla bla bla
done

-andrej