Learning Python Network Programming

Chapter 5

This module provides an SMBConnection class, where you can pass the necessary
parameters for accessing an SMB/CIFS share. For example, the following code will
help you to access a file-share:

from smb.SMBConnection import SMBConnection

smb_connection = SMBConnection(username, password,

client_machine_name, server_name, use_ntlm_v2 = True,

domain='WORKGROUP', is_direct_tcp=True)

If the preceding works, then the following assertion will be true:

assert smb_connection.connect(server_ip, 445)

You can list the shared files by using the listShares() method:

shares = smb_connection.listShares()

for share in shares:

print share.name

If you can use the tmpfile module copying a file from your windows share. For
example, if you create a file in the C:\Share\test.rtf path, then the additional
code shown here will copy that file by using the SMB protocol:

import tempfile

files = smb_connection.listPath(share.name, '/')

for file in files:

print file.filename

file_obj = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()

file_attributes, filesize = smb_connection.retrieveFile('Share',

'/test.rtf', file_obj)

file_obj.close()

If we put the entire code into a single source file, then it will look like the
following listing:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import tempfile

from smb.SMBConnection import SMBConnection

SAMBA_USER_ID = 'FaruqueSarker'

PASSWORD = 'PASSWORD'

CLIENT_MACHINE_NAME = 'debian6box'

SAMBA_SERVER_NAME = 'FARUQUESARKER'

SERVER_IP = '10.0.2.2'