[Solved]Linux: list of all the existing the UNC network shortcuts
("smb://...")?
lazarus / 38-Networking and Web Programming

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devEric69 · 2019-06-17 12:14

Hello,

I am under Linux \ Ubuntu desktop 18.04, on which I've created 2 UNC
network shortcuts (one to another Linux machine and one to a Windows
machine), both are therefore operational and of the type
"smb://@IP/rep_shared".

Now, I would like to store all these shortcuts in a TStringList for
example, but I don't see which text file to iterate to get them back
(I found that it would be stored in the /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab file,
but that's not the case).
Does anyone know a file to iterate in Laz. to get them, or another
method (currently, I type these Samba addresses into the Nemo file
manager, and they are created if the target machine is turned on, what
I find practical;or am I totally forced to enter them manually in
fstab, which I find more "static")?

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devEric69 · 2019-06-17 15:21

Well, finally, I create in the etc/fstab file, the network shortcuts
that I find useful for starting the machine, aka permanent mounting
points. Then, I iterate this file (bulk use of JclFileUtils and
JclSysUtils where I commented all the functions not compiling because
they are strictly dedicated to Windows, to be able to use _PATH_MNTAB,
GetAvailableFileSystems, ..., and getmntent_r which returns each line
of the fstab as a record).
- entries with a MNT_FSNAME='UUID=.../...' are " volume mount points "
('/',' /home',' swap', etc).
- entries with a MNT_FSNAME='//x.x.x.x.x.x/rep_shared' are " UNC
network shortcuts mount points " created with the command "mount -t
cifs .../...".

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lucamar · 2019-06-17 22:57

Wouldn't it be easier and less error prone to just parse the output of
mount or udisks?

Or you could also interate the mount points root (v.g. /media/)
checking the type of each "file".