Phil Davis wrote:
>With 'open process' on Windows, do you need to use Rev's standard
slashes instead of Windows-standard backslashes? I would understand the
backslashes if you were using shell()... just asking - I don't have time
right now to find the answer.
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Hi Phil,
As far as I know, no. The backslashes seem to be a demand of Samba itself, i.e.
what follows the program call is a list of parameters given to Samba in the
form it demands. The idea of using 3 backslashes is from an example I saw on
the Internet. Also, when it produces a network report for instance (my first
experiment, which worked unfailingly at first, but now refuses to produce a
report), the names of the computers are given with backslashes, although I am
using Linux. It could be that the Windows standard has been adopted for
consistency, since Samba is also for Windows. Here is an example I saved.
Please note that additional information in rightmost columns has been cut out.
It wouldn't display properly here:
WORKGROUP
\\WARREN
\\WARREN\ADMIN$
\\WARREN\IPC$
\\WARREN\Lexmark
\\WARREN\DESKTOP
MSHOME
\\JOHN
\\JOHN\Lexmark
\\JOHN\HPColorL
\\JOHN\C$
\\JOHN\ADMIN$
\\JOHN\C
\\JOHN\print$
\\JOHN\IPC$
\\BOB-DESKTOP
\\BOB-DESKTOP\Lexmark
\\BOB-DESKTOP\ADMIN$
\\BOB-DESKTOP\IPC$
\\BOB-DESKTOP\boblinux
\\BOB-DESKTOP\print$
Note that in my 2nd experiment (first line) I first of all tried it without
using backslashes as escape codes for the spaces, but when it didn't work I
tried putting them in as I would do for Shell. It didn't work either. But I
can't help by doing many other further experiments in Ubuntu, since it seems
that Samba has packed up altogether on my machine. I know what I'll do. If I
get time in the next day or two ('cos I am also very busy with other work) I'll
try doing these things in Linspire on another machine. I can also try it from a
pendrive using Puppy Linux. I'll let you know what happens, OK?***
Oh, by the way, I now remember that I DID try various combinations of forward
slashes too, but to no avail. When I used forward slashes, Samba complained,
but when I used backslashes, it didn't complain. I think that the problem
anyway is not with this first line but possibly with the password business, but
I won't be dogmatic about that, since if I really knew the answer there
wouldn't be any point in asking other people for advice here.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Bob
*** I've just tried my 2nd experiment from a Puppy live CD (the Samba modules
are in /usr/sbin). I got exactly the same results as before: It runs perfectly
in the terminal (with the backslashes as shown), but not in Revolution.
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