My Tech Notes

Procedures to mount Windows shares from remote machines changed so many times during lifespan of Linux, that an attempt to do a search in Google gives a mix of solutions from using "smbmount" to "mount -t smb".

Here is the latest and greates solution. Make sure you have "smbfs" package installed and do this :

% sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.102/share_name /media/my_share -o \
  username=theuser,password=thepass,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777

With option "iocharset=utf8" it ought to handle international characters in all Windows NT-based systems. If you need to mount drives from Windows 95/98/Me, different translation options will be necessary.

see this page for more detailed explanations.

Labels: linux, Samba, Ubuntu, unicode, web-services, windows

# posted by Kostya @ 3:32 PM 0 comments

Curtis Krauskopf discusses a neat trick which forces C preprocessor to merge __FILE__ and __LINE__ as one string, which isn't straightforward since __FILE__ is a string but __LINE__ is an integer.

It turns out you can solve the problem with two additional macros:

#include <stdio.h>
#define STRINGIFY(x) #x
#define TOSTRING(x) STRINGIFY(x)
#define AT __FILE__ ":" TOSTRING(__LINE__)
void error(const char *location, const char *msg)
{
  printf("Error at %s: %s\n", location, msg);
}
int main(int , char**)
{
  error(AT, "fake error");
  return 0;
}

Now, if only someone could find a way to merge __func__ and __LINE__ ....

Labels: C

# posted by Kostya @ 4:03 PM 0 comments