Copy / write to a UNC path
lazarus / 1-Linux

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tech-pro · 2008-07-17 14:41

I have a KDE program, Konserve, that can back up to an unmounted
external share if you specify a path like smb://host/path/filename. I
want to have this functionality in my program.

In Windows, I'm pretty sure you can do this using normal
Lazarus/Pascal functions (CopyFile, Filename property of a FileStream)
by specifying a UNC path like \\host\path\filename. In Linux, I cannot
find any way to do this. With or without "smb:" at the start of the
path I just get an error. If I use the Windows format of backslashes
an actual file of that name gets created in my project folder that I
have trouble deleting. Any pointers?

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tech-pro · 2008-07-18 09:26

Well, for what it's worth, I solved this problem by examining the
path, and if it starts with smb:, parsing it into a command line for
smbclient that I execute using fpSystem.