[Network Drive] Extension asks to install Samba, while macOS Samba is already installed

[j-peeters]

Extension

https://www.raycast.com/SuoweiHu/network-drive

Raycast Version

1.76.0

macOS Version

14.5

Description

Thanks for developing this extension. AFAIK Apple is using Samba to mount network drives. So Samba is probably installed. The extensions doesn't recognize this and asks to install Samba via Homebrew. This feels superfluous and might cause conflicts by installing it again. Maybe there's a way to recognize the already installed Samba or just tap into it. Thanks

Steps To Reproduce

1. install extension
2. configure extension
3. extension asks to install Samba

Current Behaviour

Extension asks to install Samba

Expected Behaviour

Extensions uses build in macOS Samba.

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[SuoweiHu]

Thank you for point this out @j-peeters, I'll have a look on this ASAP I can(・ω・)b

[SuoweiHu]

Hello @j-peeters,

I have spent some time investigating the suggested built-in samba, I cannot find anything except for the smbutil, it is produce similar output to what I am trying to do with smbclient (from samba installed via brew); But this smbutil has no control over the format of the output (json/table/csv/etc), which will make the cleaning of the output a bit challenging.

And I recon it is a old version of smbutil as well. As it have no logout sub-command which seems to appear on the man-page for smbutil https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=smbutil&format=html.

Hence, for all the reasons, I feel like there's some proper reasons for us to use the smbclient (from samba installed via brew) in this instance. Please let me know what you think on this matter :)

Kind Regards, Simon Hu

[SuoweiHu]

Humm after a second though I think you've got the point, system level utility should be the priority goto, I'll try cleanup stdout smbutil, hopefully I can replicate the same effect with it.

[SuoweiHu]

Hello @j-peeters, I have address your suggestion on pull-#12923. Appreciate your valuable comment !

[j-peeters]

Hello @j-peeters, I have address your suggestion on pull-#12923. Appreciate your valuable comment !

Thank you so much for your research and considerations, Simon. I will try it out once the pull is merged by Raycast team.