From: "List.rb" <list.rb@...>
Date: 2009-02-17T20:27:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing shared windows smb:// folder





On Feb 17, 2009, at 2:26 AM, sa 125 <s_ayalon@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I'm running ubuntu linux on an office network with mostly windows
> machines. I have a shared network folder that I can access with samba
> as:
>
> smb://hostname/shared
>
> I'm trying to write a script that will read the contents of that  
> shared
> folder, but can't access it using the above address. I tried to print
> the content:
>
> Dir.entries('smb://hostname/shared').each { |e| puts e }
>
> But obviously got a no such directory error. I know this isn't the way
> to go, but I can't figure out how to read that location.
>
> Any tips will be great - thanks!
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>


 From the windows clients, Dir["\\\\server\\share\\*"]

 From the samb server, just use the actual directory that's mounted.

For other nix hosts, I would setup nfs mount points