SMB Module

[Armin Steinhoff]

In article <slrn94vpc7.544.mballen at angus.foo.net>, mballen at erols.com says...
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>Armin Steinhoff wrote:
>>In article <slrn94trot.b73.mballen at angus.foo.net>, mballen at erols.com says...
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>>>I frequent the Samba mailing list. A couple of days ago Richard Sharp
>>>put together an smbclient.so library of client functions for SMB. SMB
>>>is Microsoft's native file and print sharing protocol. Someone wrote a
>>>Perl module using it. I just thought one of you guys might want to do the
>>>same for Python. Seems only natrual since there's a nice little library
>>>all packaged up with open(), read(), write(), ...etc all setup easy like.
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>>Makes no sense, because a SMB client mapps normaly a M$ volume to a directory
>>tree (UNIX) or a virtual drive (M$) ... I don't see in that case any tasks for
>>Python.
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>I'm not really sure what your talking about Armin.

See above ... SMB clients :)

> SMB Servers are file
>servers like ftp, http, nfs, ...etc. It just happends to be by far the
>most popular.
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>And if you have people are dedicated to MS, as many are, then having this
>tool might be crucial to allowing you to work in a UNIX environment if
>that's what you prefer. I do.

Ditto ... we use SMB clients to map SMB volumes (M$, UNIX) and we run SMB
servers (M$, UNIX) to offer SMB volumes.

BTW .. the 'SAMBA' SMB server works with WinXY and UNIX and it is FREE!

See http://www.samba.org

Armin



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