Event for scheduler when samba starts in windows 7

[DrDu]

I want to start a program with the event sheduler in windows 7 when samba establishes a connection for a network drive. I am not a windows guy. How do I do this?

 

[Svein]

I want to start a program with the event sheduler in windows 7 when samba establishes a connection for a network drive. I am not a windows guy. How do I do this?

Samba is a Linux thing - it is a pun on the Server Message Block protocol used by earlier versions of Windows. I suggest you read up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block and then get hold of some Windows API documentation. I suspect what you want to do is not easy (Microsoft do not want anybody to mess around with their code internals).

 

[DrDu]

Ok, I see. I think I will launch my program simply at login and check periodically for the existence of the drive. What I really want to do is to start some windows application once a linux application wrote the input for this application on the shared samba folder. I do this with a simple vbscript which checks periodically for the existence of the file. Not elegant, but in the environment I am forced to work, nothing is elegant anyhow.

Thank you very much for your help!

 

[gsal]

Hhhhmmm...drive? file?

Say, how would you do things differently if instead of waiting for a file via samba, all you had to do is wait for a file in the C:\ drive?. Once the samba drive is mapped onto Windows to, say the S:\ drive, things shouldn't be any different.

 

[DrDu]

You are right, there is no difference. But my first idea was to start the program which watches for a file each time that the samba connection for the drive is established. Now I think I will start the watcher on login and test first whether the drive is mounted.