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Re: accessing netinfo db from cocoa?

If you want to do it fast, without shell output parsing, and in a way that will work on 10.4 *and* 10.5, use the Directory Services C API. The downside is that it's more complex than many of the Cocoa APIs you're likely used to.

Docs:

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Networking/Conceptual/Open_Directory/Introduction/chapter_1_section_1.html >

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Networking/Reference/Open_Directory_Ref/Reference/reference.html >

Lots of source to learn from (the dscl sources are a good place to look for examples):

http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/Current/DSTools-112/


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m-s

On 31 Aug, 2008, at 10:43, Jaime Magiera wrote:


On Aug 31, 2008, at 4:57 AM, Kieren Eaton wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to find a way to access the netinfo DB from cocoa. Specifically the sharing (AFP, SMB, etc).
Pointers or ideas are much appreciated. 


Hello,

Quick question: Are you using Leopard or Tiger machines? On Tiger, you can run the commands "niultil" or "nicl" to query the NetInfo database from your application. Note that in Leopard, Netinfo has been completely deprecated in favor of a local LDAP database. So, if you are using Leopard, run the command "dscl" from your application. In either case, you'll have to parse the command results in your app.

On Tiger, the path you want to query is...

/config/SharePoints/

On Leopard, the path you want to query is...

/Local/Default/SharePoints

hope that helps,

Jaime Magiera

Sensory Research
http://www.sensoryresearch.net

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