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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: SMB slave
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-11-17 11:20:26
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On Friday 17 November 2000 12:32, aleXXX wrote:
> On Friday 17 November 2000 12:38, aleXXX wrote:
> >For the wrapper-option: do you think it would be theoretically possible to
> >start smbclient with a preloaded small lib which overwrites mainly the
> >fopen() or whatever function in that way that it doesn't create a file but a
> >named pipe ?
> >This way getting from smbclient would be transparent, wouldn't it ?
> >
> >Maybe this could work for put too, not sure,but maybe for putting this is
> > not such a problem, is it ?
> 
> Looking at the sources of smbclient I just found out that smbclient can get() 
> to stdout and put from stdin, isn't this nice ? :-)
> 
> In other words, if we start smbclient in a wrapper, we can read directly from 
> it :)

Ah yes, that's really nice !

Is smbclient available on all the platforms KDE supports ? (I'm thinking
proprietary unixes)... I mean, in terms of portability.

If you start this way, ask Simon for his copy of Corel's kio_smb, I'm sure
it will save you time - they made it as a wrapper around smbclient too.

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