SMbHandler Class

Notes

• Note that you need to pass in a valid hostname or IP address for the host component of the URL. Do not use the Windows/NetBIOS machine name for the host component.
• The first component of the path in the URL points to the name of the shared folder. Subsequent path components will point to the directory/folder of the file.
• You can retrieve and upload files, but you cannot delete files/folders or create folders. In uploads, if the parent folders do not exist, an urllib2.URLError will be raised.

Example

The following code snippet illustrates file retrieval.:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import urllib2
from smb.SMBHandler import SMBHandler

director = urllib2.build_opener(SMBHandler)
fh = director.open('smb://myuserID:mypassword@192.168.1.1/sharedfolder/rfc1001.txt')

# Process fh like a file-like object and then close it.
fh.close()

# For paths/files with unicode characters, simply pass in the URL as an unicode string
fh2 = director.open(u'smb://myuserID:mypassword@192.168.1.1/sharedfolder/测试文件夹/垃圾文件.dat')

# Process fh2 like a file-like object and then close it.
fh2.close()

The following code snippet illustrates file upload. You need to provide a file-like object for the data parameter in the open() method:

import urllib2
from smb.SMBHandler import SMBHandler

file_fh = open('local_file.dat', 'rb')

director = urllib2.build_opener(SMBHandler)
fh = director.open('smb://myuserID:mypassword@192.168.1.1/sharedfolder/upload_file.dat', data = file_fh)

# Reading from fh will only return an empty string
fh.close()