Re: smbclient tab completion

["Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 09:27, Robert Citek wrote:
> Is there a tab-completion on the remote side for smbclient?
> I've been able to connect from a Linux box to a Win2003 server using 
> smbclient, which is kind of like an ftp client.  What I'd like to use 
> is tab completion.  While tab-completion does exist, it tab-completes 
> for the local machine (linux) rather than the remote machine (win2003). 
>   Is there a way to enable tab-completion for the remote site?  Is there 
> some kind of switch?  Man pages and googling haven't revealed anything 
> obvious, yet.

I would assume a remote procedure call (RPC) would be required for a
remote filesystem.

NFS, SMBfs and other user space support for network filesystem kernel
VFS mounts would provide this.  I assume smbclient does not.

Interesting problem though, one that _might_ have a solution -- if not
should be a hack to smbclient itself.

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Bryan J. Smith                                    b.j.smith@ieee.org 
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