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a high-performance SMB directory scanner in Rust
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HN · launched Dec 22, 2025 · 16 upvotes (top 38%) · 0 views
Niche: network monitoring and diagnostics tools · 193 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
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- Security
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial Building a high-concurrency network scanner that natively implements or optimizes the SMB/CIFS protocol in Rust requires networking and systems programming skills.
What it would actually take: Built in Rust using Tokio for asynchronous I/O and custom or wrapped SMB2/SMB3 protocol handlers. Key technical challenges include implementing high-throughput multi-threaded directory enumeration, handling SMB dialect negotiation, managing network latency and timeout pools across thousands of shares, and bypassing authentication/permission edge cases without causing thread starvation.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Traditional directory scanning tools
Concerns raised: Rayon may not be optimal for IO-heavy tasks, Symlink infinite loops edge case, Windows 255 character path limits, WiFi packet loss with too many concurrent requests, Excessive SMB round-trips on network shares
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 3348 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1238 of 3349 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 52 days after the earliest competitor.
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- lightning · github · 2026-10-20 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.64
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- loaf-fm · github · 2026-10-16 · 74 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- MCP-stama · hn · 2026-08-13 · 73 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Neptune, a free and open-source terminal built in Rust · hn · 2026-10-07 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- blazing-rust · github · 2026-11-07 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- FIPSPad · hn · 2026-02-05 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.59
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