From: Patrik Sundberg <ps@...>
Date: 2002-01-12T07:07:15+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby/SMB - ruby interface to the libsmbclient library

On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 04:27:18AM +0900, Henrik Falck wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> After a long time of lurking in the Ruby community I have finally 
> managed to produce something...
> 
> Ruby/SMB is a C library that glues together Ruby and samba's 
> libsmbclient. It makes it very easy to work with smb network resources 
> - they behave almost exactly like local directories and files!
> 
> It is an early alpha, supposed to be released tomorrow, but due to the 
> overwhelming demand for smb client libs on this list [;o)] I decided to 
> released it today. I'm not sure it will compile on your computer, but 
> it does on mine, and it works well. Please report bugs and I'll fix 
> them asap.
> 
> Also, libsmbclient is an alpha, included in the samba 3.0 alpha 
> distribution. It took some tweaking of its code to get it to compile on 
> my computer, but it wasn't too hard. I'm in contact with the samba 
> development team and it seems most issues with the lib will be fixed 
> pretty soon.
> 
> So... here it is...
> http://rubysmb.sourceforge.net/

thanks mate! just what i almost have been producing myself, only I haven't
finnished it yet. i will report any bugs, etc when i find 'em.

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