NetFSMountMBS format for NAS

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Hi,

I’m trying to mount shares from a NAS using the NetFSMountMBS class. Whatever I try, I get errors.

Currently, this is my code:

Var MountPoints() as string
Var Result as integer=app.NFSM.MountURLSync("smb://192.168.1.117","Movies",UserName,Password,app.OpenOptions,app.MountOptions,MountPoints)

(app.NFSM being a property of type NetFSMountMBS)

The dictionaries are built as follow:

MountOptions=new Dictionary
MountOptions.Value(NetFSMountMBS.kNetFSAllowSubMountsKey)=true

OpenOptions=new Dictionary
OpenOptions.Value(NetFSMountMBS.kNAUIOptionKey)=NetFSMountMBS.kNAUIOptionNoUI

Result always equals -6003 and MountPoints is nil.
-6003, from the MBS documentation is “No shared available.”. Is that intended to be “No shares available”?

With “smb://192.168.1.117.local”, it’s worse, as the server can’t even be found, and it doesn’t work without “smb://” either.
I get the same behaviours using the example project.

I can’t find the requested format.
Can anyone help me?

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Your URL misses the name of the volume you like to mount.
And maybe pass “” for the mount path to let it pick the default one.

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I thought the mount path was the volume name.

If the volume name is to be passed in the URL, what can mount path be used for?

Thank you.

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Well, it’s the destination on your computer.

e.g. “/Volumes/test”

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Ah, ok, thanks.
So, if I pass an empty string to the mount path, what does the “default path” mean in this context? The root folder?

P.S.: your solution of passing the volume inside the URL indeed works, thank you.

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Empty mount path → default location

7

Yes, I get it, but what’s the “default location” inside a shared volume?

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It’s the path on your computer, where you want the share to appear.

Default is “/Volumes/Movies” for you.

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So, to summarise, with my first example:
The URL is: smb.//192.168.1.117/Movies (i.e. the volume/share “Movies” on my NAS).
The default share, when passing “” as Mount Path is /volumes/movie (or the equivalent for my NAS).
Correct until here?

So, if I pass “smb://192.168.1.117/Movies” as the URL and “MyFolder” as Mount Path, it’d try to mount “/volumes/Movies/MyFolder” on my NAS or “/volumes/MyFolder”?

In my mind, a share and a Mount Path are the same.

Thanks.