NSE smbauth library question

[David Matousek <david () matousec com>]

Hi,

I am exploring NSE right now and there is this thing I did not find any
information about in the documentation or anywhere else and it makes
not much sense to me. Could someone please help and explain it to me?

In the documentation of scripts there is the Script Arguments section.
Many scripts such as

- hostmap-robtex
- http-affiliate-id
- cups-queue-info

do have smb* arguments from smbauth library mentioned there.
I can't figure out how these scripts use smbauth library.

hostmap-robtex.nse seems to be the most simple example of this.
The code is very short and very clear. If I understand it correctly,
it just downloads a HTML page from robtex.com server and parses it
and that's pretty much all it does. So, how do I change the behavior
of this script if I use the smb* arguments with it?

What is the dependency here I am missing? Does this script
really depend on smbauth or is this part of the documentation
only somehow automatically generated and due to some internal
dependency from e.g. http library there is this smbauth script
arguments section but those arguments can not really affect
the script in any way?

Thank you,

David
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