CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Tuan Anh Tran
Tuan Anh Tran

Reputation: 7237

Access file from network share path in nodejs

The path looks like this

\\10.1.10.11\Results\\filename.rtf

From my machine, i can access it just fine by pasting it to Run box, enter username and password.

I've tried smb2 (smb2) but the sample code just hangs and after awhile, I get Error: read ECONNRESET.

I need to make this works on both linux and windows.

Upvotes: 16

Views: 32319

Answers (3)

Lonnie Best
Lonnie Best

Reputation: 11354

Did you escape the backslashes?

 var path = "\\\\10.1.10.11\\Results\\filename.rtf";
 console.log(path);

Above works, but here's a better looking way (that accomplishes the same path without having to double up those backslashes):

let path = String.raw`\\10.1.10.11\Results\filename.rtf`;
console.log(path);

Warning: With this technique, you still have to double up the backslash if the string ends with a backslash.

Doing this, I just had success attaching a file (located on a network share) to an email via node.js (and the nodemailer package). Perhaps this would apply in what you're doing too.

Upvotes: 24

steampowered
steampowered

Reputation: 12062

In Ubuntu try the cifs-utils package to mount the smb-cifs Windows file share to a Linux mount path

sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
mount -t cifs -o username=USERNAME,password=PASSWD //192.168.1.88/shares /mnt/share

and then you can access it in this directory: /mnt/share

In Windows you should be able to access the network path directly. Windows 7 seems to accept forward slashes in place of back slashes for a network path name. Try this:

var path = "//10.1.10.11/Results/filename.rtf";

Upvotes: 3

Tuan Anh Tran
Tuan Anh Tran

Reputation: 7237

I figure I might as well just mount it and access it like local file.

for Linux server, I used smbmount.

Upvotes: 3

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