Ruby unc path access on windows

Question

Not sure what i'm missing: I'm trying to access a unc share via irb on a Windows 2k8 machine:

irb(main):016:0> Dir.entries('\\server\share') Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - \server\share

irb(main):017:0> Dir.entries('\\192.168.10.1\share') Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - \192.168.10.1\share

Any hints? Sven

Answer 1

Looks like you're missing the trailing slash. Try '\\server\share\'

It's similar to the root directory of a Windows drive. That's C:\, not C:

Answer 2

Try to escape '\' with another '\'

Dir.entries('\\\\192.168.10.1\\share')