Posted by Joe Wollard on 02/21/05 09:13

Greetings,

I am toying around with the idea of building a very basic script to do a
_VERY_ basic index of the network shares at work. Almost all of them are
Samba shares but I didn't see any easy way to access them without
mounting them all to my servers local file system at some point or
another _OR_ by using the packages that come in the samba suite (e.g.
smbfind, smbtree, etc). I was wondering if anyone knew of a samba stream
wrapper out there or if anyone has been working on one. I'm not even
sure this is a practical solution since I don't know a tremendous amount
of information about samba its self, but I would like to be able to
access them as such:

$res = fopen("smb://username:password@workgroup/myserver/myshare/");

or at least something similar to that. For a more detailed idea of what
I'm talking about please see www.php.net/stream_wrapper_register and
thanks for any help or direction you can send me!

-Joe Wollard

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