It appears that 'smbclient -L' is not able to view shares on an NT server (or above) that are created with a space in the name, although it is possible to access these shares if the name is given explicitly. The reason is that NT, 2K, and XP will not return these shares in response to a NetShareEnum, presumably because (as a warning under NT suggests when creating such a share) DOS clients will be confused by such share names.
Windows clients get around this by doing a NetrShareEnum call on \SRVSVC instead. Samba also implements this functionality, but the necessary code is not linked into smbclient. Should it be? It seems easy enough to link it in, but so far smbclient doesn't include any RPC code. Is it better to recommend that people use one of the other RPC-aware tools (e.g., 'net share')? In that case, what should be done for libsmbclient, which also has this problem? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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