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knuut
knuut

Reputation: 71

mount network drives with Qt

i try to mount a network drives(CIFS) in Linux with Qt. But it doesnt work. Is there also another solution, without QProcess?

QProcess connectSamba;
    QString terminalCommand;
    terminalCommand = "mount -t cifs //" + ip + "/folder/ " + mountpath;
    connectSamba.start(terminalCommand);

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2158

Answers (1)

TheDarkKnight
TheDarkKnight

Reputation: 27611

Rather wondering if there's another solution, I think you should examine and understand why QProcess doesn't work for you.

Calling QProcess::start in this way will take the first token (mount) as the command and pass each of the following items, separated by a space, as arguments. Therefore, tokens such as "//" and "/folder/" are not valid arguments for the mount command.

You can use QProcess by doing something like this: -

QProcess connectSamba;

QString mountPath = "//" + ip + "/folder/ " + mountpath;
QString terminalArgs = QString("-c \"mount -t cifs %1\"").arg(mountPath);
connectSamba.start("/bin/bash", terminalArgs);
connectSamba.waitForFinished();

Note that the terminal arguments are surrounded by quotes to ensure that only one argument is passed and we're calling the bash interpreter with the -c argument, which takes commands from the proceeding string.

Upvotes: 3

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