findsmb command is missing from smbclient package

Bug #1362963 reported by C. Jeffery Small
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samba (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

[Note: I cannot report this using apport-bug as that command is currently failing on this system.]

The findsmb command is missing from the package: smbclient 2.4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.3

Note that the manual page is included, but the command itself is missing.

There is also some confusing regarding the documentation. Here is the manpage for the trusty distribution:

    http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/findsmb.1.html

Notice that it indicates that this command is included in smbclient_4.1.3+dfsg-2ubuntu5_i386
Is this correct notation? Are the 64-bit packages not documented, or is this another bug?

The findsmb command is supposed to be a perl script so it should really be package independent.
Can the file be downloaded from some location?

Luke Yelavich (themuso)
affects: at-spi2-core (Ubuntu) → samba (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in samba (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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C. Jeffery Small (loyhz2ay-jeff-h670zbts) wrote :

Rather than make a separate bug report, I'll just add that swat is also missing from the distribution. There is no local or online manual page for this utility in 14.10 and synaptic does not show anything, so it may have been intentionally dropped. Worth confirming.

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iLugo (isra) wrote :

I can confirm that findsmb is also missing from the package smbclient 2:4.1.13+dfsg-4ubuntu3 in Kubuntu 15.04 (Kubuntu Vivid).
After installing that package and reinstalling it (also reinstalling samba) the findsmb script does not exist anywhere.

For a workaround, I have taken a copy of the findsmb script from an older installation (Mint 14 "Nadia"/Ubuntu Quantal) and that copy runs and seems to do what it is supposed to do - or at the very least it is listing the systems that I was expecting to respond to it).

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