SMB Module

[Armin Steinhoff]

In article <3A508B35.1D328941 at iit.demokritos.gr>, Vassilis says...
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>Armin Steinhoff wrote:
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>> In article <slrn94vpc7.544.mballen at angus.foo.net>, mballen at erols.com says...
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>> >Armin Steinhoff wrote:
>>>>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.
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>> See above ... SMB clients :)
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>I think we have a slight misunderstanding here. Please let us remind you
>that unless you are using linux you cannot mount SMB shares since you
>lack the smbfs module which is a smb client actually.

Well ... I was talking about utilities for mounting of SMB volumes.
There are a lot of other 'smbfs' like modules for other UNIXes.
(For QNX RTP ... it's called fs-cifs)

> The SMB client library is very useful 

Huh ... what is a 'SMB client library' ??

>in that respect, thus effectively allows other operating systems to access MS
>>servers.

It allows access to SMB servers ... not only M$ servers.

> Since python offers bindings for
>every other library in this planet I don't really see why such an
>addition would be  useless or inconsistent.

What the heck should offer a 'SMB client library' to that planet since we are
able to mount SMB volumes??

Armin