This is a puzzling one.
I have a shared folder on a PC running SolydXK(Debian-based). Samba shares
out the folder fine, and I can see it in
the file manager from another PC on network running
Debian 8.

I have some code in node.js that needs a path to that folder to grab its
contents. File manager shows it as "smb://solydx-dw/schedule", but when I feed
that to the fs.readdir() function in Node, it chokes. Invalid directory..

I went looking for a mount point for the share, but could not find one.
I also read that linux no longer uses mount points for network shares...

How can I get a valid path to use for this?
Thanks for any ideas..

file managers use a built in samba client virtual file system so you don't have to be root or have a line in the fstab file to access remote shares but you can still use mount points. It might be accessible /run/user/... but only if it is mounted by the file manager first.

In your case I would mount it via fstab.

Hi Michaelk,

Good suggestions. I found a workable solution, using
mount.cifs . This allowed me to mount the remote share
in /media, which gave me a path to use. And it works
just fine. If I have to retain the association more
permanently, I'll use your fstab solution.