Searching Tool for LAN

stelmed · 12-30-2003, 05:42 AM

Hello Everybody!

Does anyone use (or has ever used) some tool for searching for share files through a LAN. I searched the web and found only solutiions that need MySQL+PHP+Apache. I don't have all the time needed to install and configure all this stuff for a LAN search utility so if anybody is aware of a stand-alone utility, PLEASE let me know!

peok · 12-30-2003, 01:04 PM

how about ftp and ls?

do you mean something that will search the network for a specific file? What protocol does your lan use?

stelmed · 12-30-2003, 08:57 PM

Well, I don't know what you mean about the protocol, but things go like that: My computer is connected to a Loca Area Network along with 30-40 other computers. Many of them share some files. My question is: Instead of browsing the LAN with xsmbrowser is there any tool to search for files, for example I want to find some
tar.gz files by just typing *.tar.gz as I do in my local disk?
I hope i made myself understood.
Thanx a lot anyway!

pnh73 · 12-31-2003, 09:25 AM

Well, you mount them `mount -t smbfs`, as you are using windows SMB protocol. When you have mounted them you can use the linux find command.

Usage:

mount -t smbfs -o username=uname,password=foobar //computer/share /mount/point

find /mount/point -name '*.tar.gz' -print

HTH

jschiwal · 01-13-2004, 06:26 PM

Building on the advice of PNH73, you could write a script that will mount each network share in turn and look for the file given as a parameter, probably in single quotes in the script so it doesn't expand until the command is executed (for wild cards). From your original description, I don't know if these shares are always mounted to begin with or not.

Maybe the first part of the problem description should be whether you can use samba to produce a list of available network shares at any point of time?

stelmed · 01-14-2004, 10:22 AM

Well, thank you for your help, I will try to write a script... BTW I found smbc, it's very early version but it is interesting....

See you!

stelmed · 01-23-2004, 06:06 AM

Well, I managed to write a simple script which finds and mounts all the shares (samba) from the Local Network. If someone thinks that it could be of help, I can send it to her/him...

Well after all I gues this is way I prefer Linux to everything else, when there is something you don't like it's up to you to make it better....

Viva Linux!