jCIFS Design Ideas
These are some ideas that have been discussed on the jCIFS list. Some are
being implemented, others are still ideas.
- Create GUI versions of popular Samba tools.
- Java supports the GUI development, so we should be able to
present a "Network Neighborhood"-like display and
allow queries against the nodes and services listed.
- Small, single-dialect servers & clients.
- The idea streamlining the implementation by selecting a single
SMB dialect for use by smaller systems. A larger system might
then proxy connections to servers/clients which do not support
the selected dialect.
- Provide a command-line interface tool.
- Allow administrators to control and query a running client or
server without interrupting service.
- Dump converstation traces in a standard format.
- For protocol analysis and debugging, conversations might be
copied to a something like tcpdump format so that they can be
viewed using common tools such as Ethereal.
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