[Samba] listing shares programmatically

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 6:27 PM Emmanuel Florac via samba
<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> it's probably somewhat off-topic, but I need to automate mounting
> shares which are dynamically created on a samba server. I can use
> "smbclient -L <server>" to grab that list, however its output isn't
> easily parseable.

However you get the list, can I encourage you to use something like
"autofs" to pipe the names of the shares and their mountpoints into a
configuration that makes them automatically available and unmounts
them gracefully when no one is using them?

> I had a look in the samba tools and found nothing of relevance.
>
> Is there a recommanded way to get the list of shares from a remote
> server programmatically?
>
> cheers
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