Using pysmbc to read files over samba

Question

I am using the python-smbc library on Ubuntu to access a samba share. I can access the directory structure fine, I am however not sure how to access actual files and their c

Answer 1

Provided you have an open context (see the unit tests here)
* https://github.com/ioggstream/pysmbc/tree/master/tests

suri =  'smb://' + settings.SERVER + '/' + settings.SHARE + '/test.dat'  
dpath = '/tmp/destination.out'

# open smbc uri
sfile = ctx.open(suri, os.O_RDONLY)

# open local target where to copy file
dfile = open(dpath, 'wb')

#copy file and flush
dfile.write(sfile.read())
dfile.flush()

#close both files
sfile.close()    
dfile.close()

To open a context just define an authentication function

ctx = smbc.Context()

def auth_fn(server, share, workgroup, username, password):
    return (workgroup, settings.USERNAME, settings.PASSWORD)

ctx.optionNoAutoAnonymousLogin = True
ctx.functionAuthData = auth_fn