OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Networking
Universal Naming Convention (UNC) on Samba?
Doug Clark:
Does universal naming convention (UNC) work on Samba for OS/2? Or is it limited to Netbios (file/print services) on OS/2?
Dariusz Piatkowski:
Hey Doug!
Do you mean as in "dir \\nas"?
..where 'nas' is my local nas box?
In that case, from CLI it does NOT work.
Now consider that I have all my Samba shares mapped through NetDrive, as such, I can readily get to them through the typical drive mapping.
When it comes to Samba specific client though, here is what a 'smbtree' returns on my system:
--- Code: ---[G:\]smbtree
Enter HOME\dariusz's password:
HOME
\\WINMAIN WINMAIN
\\WINMAIN\C$ Default share
\\WINMAIN\ADMIN$ Remote Admin
\\WINMAIN\Printer2 Microsoft XPS Document Writer
\\WINMAIN\C
\\WINMAIN\SamsungPhotoPrinter Samsung SPP-2040 Series
\\WINMAIN\print$ Printer Drivers
\\WINMAIN\IPC$ Remote IPC
\\ORCLSRVR
\\NAS NSA325
\\NAS\IPC$ IPC Service ("NSA325")
\\NAS\public
\\NAS\video
\\NAS\photo
\\NAS\music
\\NAS\admin
\\NAS\nfs
\\NAS\BACKUP
\\NAS\VOL1
--- End code ---
But if the Samba client approach is A-OK for you, than I would say the UNC naming convention would work.
Dave Yeo:
I think you have to use an URL such as,
--- Code: ---smb://NAS/public
--- End code ---
And NAS has to be resolvable, through DNS (host file) or the WINS thingy.
Dariusz Piatkowski:
--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on June 20, 2021, 12:35:55 am ---I think you have to use an URL such as,
--- Code: ---smb://NAS/public
--- End code ---
And NAS has to be resolvable, through DNS (host file) or the WINS thingy.
--- End quote ---
So 'dir smb://nas/public' Dave???
Nah, no go...NAS is resolvable, I have an entry in HOSTS as well as lmhosts, here is what I get:
--- Code: ---[G:\]dir smb:\\nas\public
The volume label in drive G is OS2.
The Volume Serial Number is 45B6:75C3.
SYS0123: A file name or volume label contains an incorrect character.
--- End code ---
...and the forward-slash version of it just produces multiple SYS1003 errors ( The syntax of the command is incorrect.).
Dave Yeo:
Yea, dir or any other DOS commands won't understand it. Perhaps some *nix ones might. Could try ls.
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