macOS Detecting network path

[ithil]

Hi all,

Is there any way to detect whether a selected path is on local disk or network path? Or is there any equivalent for Windows API 'PathIsUNC' which detects whether the selected path is network path or not.

Thanks.

 

[slooksterPSV]

COMMENT REMOVED - mrichmon gave the perfect way to do it.

 

[mrichmon]

Under OS X, if you log into a server for your home directory, then you cross over into the network via /private/server_name/users_folder ...
so you could enumerate the path to the Home Directory and test to see if /private is one of those paths, if it is, then you know that the user's home directory is on a network volume. Also your other connected volumjes digg deep into private. You'll have to view it yourself and figure it out.

/private has no bearing on whether a directory is on a local filesystem or on a remote filesystem. AFP mounted shares for example have no record under /private unless you specifically change the automounter default mount location.

The original poster should look at the XCode Reference library, specifically, Cocoa->File Management->Low-Level File Management Programming Topics. This document has a section "Locating Directories on the System" which discusses the NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains class. I believe that this class will allow you to identify local and remote directories using "Local" and "Network" domains as a mask when obtaining the directory objects.

 

[slooksterPSV]

/private has no bearing on whether a directory is on a local filesystem or on a remote filesystem. AFP mounted shares for example have no record under /private unless you specifically change the automounter default mount location.

The original poster should look at the XCode Reference library, specifically, Cocoa->File Management->Low-Level File Management Programming Topics. This document has a section "Locating Directories on the System" which discusses the NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains class. I believe that this class will allow you to identify local and remote directories using "Local" and "Network" domains as a mask when obtaining the directory objects.

That's good to know - that was the only way I knew how to test for it because I knew everything routed through /private on the macs at my school to connect to the AFP shares.
Also I just barely read about something like that, the NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains so I had just barely read that section a while after I made that post. Thanx for the info.