From: Louis-Philippe <default@...>
Date: 2009-02-18T00:11:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing shared windows smb:// folder

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there is a (still quite experimental but working) ruby samba client you
could use:
http://sambala.rubyforge.org/

it won't answer the .each method as you would like but may still provide the
functionnalities you are looking for.

2009/2/17 List.rb <list.rb@gmail.com>

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> On Feb 17, 2009, at 2:26 AM, sa 125 <s_ayalon@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>  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:
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>> smb://hostname/shared
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>> 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:
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>> Dir.entries('smb://hostname/shared').each { |e| puts e }
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>> 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.
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>> Any tips will be great - thanks!
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>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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> From the windows clients, Dir["\\\\server\\share\\*"]
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> From the samb server, just use the actual directory that's mounted.
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> For other nix hosts, I would setup nfs mount points
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