Python and Samba
Radovan Garabik
garabik at center.fmph.uniba.sk.spam
Fri Feb 11 04:50:27 EST 2000
Aahz Maruch <aahz at netcom.com> wrote:
: In article <38A33CA3.CD301863 at kpnqwest.no>,
: Stein M. Eliassen <steinme at kpnqwest.no> wrote:
:>
:>I wonder if there is a way to use samba services from python?
:>
:>What I would like to do is browse shares from Python code.
:>Now I have to mount the share in a script before running the my python
:>code.
: Hmmmm... I'm doing some WAGing here, but it seems to me that the
: fundamental problem is that you really need to have a UNC and/or Win32
: environment in order to browse Samba shares. If you were running Python
: on NT, this wouldn't be an issue, I think. So the fundamental problem
: isn't a Samba library per se, but the SMB client for Unix.
there is a smbclient for unix (and if I am not mistaken, a library too,
in this case you pobably can SWIG a module....), you have to parse
smbclient's output... not difficult, just a bit boring.
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