From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-09-12T22:13:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Network user on Linux

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Mario Ruiz <tcblues@gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks a lot!!! it is working!!
>
> Another thing related to this is, I need to get access to a file that is
> on network drive and the problem is I can access it on windows like
> //fileserver....
> but in linyx is by using smb://fileserver so I need to identify which
> system I'm using or if there is any way to do the same in both
> systems...

You could configure the URL and do this before file open on Windows:

path_to_open = windows? : file_name.sub /^smb:/, '' : file_name

Kind regards

robert

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