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From:	"da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To:	"'opendos'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	LFN API stuff via M$ Client?
Date:	Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:10:23 +1000
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OK, I've tried to find this information via the Web and Ralf Brown's
interrupt list, but no luck so far (perhaps because I don't understand
what I'm looking at ;-). Perhaps someone here can "point me in the
right direction" ... ?

I was wondering if there was any sort of API provided by the M$ Client
for DOS redirector (or whatever), that would allow a DOS application
to access LFN information from an NT (SMB) network drive?

We have a number of DR-DOS machines connected via an SMB network
to a bunch of NT/W2K file servers. They have the usual M$ NDIS drivers,
TCP/IP stack and M$ Client for DOS software, which is usually run in
"basic" mode to conserve conventional memory, but is sometimes run in
"full" mode, for access to the Exchange e-mail server.

I have read on the Web that WFW 3.11 (which we don't have or use, BTW)
was able to display LFN information for NT (SMB) network drives, which
suggests such capability might be possible under DOS too, although I
haven't been able to confirm this or figure out how.

If it's possible, I want to be able to write an application to do a
directory
listing of a network drive, displaying long file names. If that works,
perhaps
later such network capability could then be added to the DOSLFN TSR,
so that DR-DOS 7.03 could provide similar LFN capabilities for network
drives as does the Windoze32 DOS Box ...

Joe.

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