fs.smbfs 0.7.4

Pyfilesystem2 over SMB using pysmb

Requirements

pyfilesystem2
six
pysmb

Installation

Install directly from PyPI, using pip

pip install fs.smbfs

Usage

Opener

Use fs.open_fs to open a filesystem with an SMB FS URL:

import fs
smb_fs = fs.open_fs('smb://username:password@SAMBAHOSTNAME:port/share')

The opener can use either an IPv4 address or a NetBIOS hostname, using the NetBIOS name service to find the other token. Otherwise, if NetBIOS is not available, a new SMB connection can be established by using the IPv4 address and giving the hostname with the hostname URL parameter.

The following parameters can be passed as URL parameters: timeout, name-port, direct-tcp, hostname.

Constructor

import fs.smbfs
smb_fs = fs.smbfs.SMBFS(
    host, username='guest', passwd='', timeout=15,
    port=139, name_port=137, direct_tcp=False
)

with each argument explained below:

host

either the host name (not the FQDN) of the SMB server, its IP address, or both in a tuple. if either the IP address or the host name is not given, NETBIOS is queried to get the missing data.

user

the username to connect with, defaults to ‘guest’ for anonymous connection.

passwd

an optional password, defaults to ‘’ for anonymous connection.

timeout

the timeout, in seconds, for NetBIOS and TCP requests.

port

the port the SMB server is listening on.

naming_port

the port the NetBIOS naming service is listening on

direct_tcp

set to True if the server is accessible directly through TCP, leave to False for maximum compatibility

Once created, the SMBFS filesystem behaves like any other filesystem (see the Pyfilesystem2 documentation), except if it was open in the root directory of the server, in which case the root directory of the SMBFS instance will be read-only (since SMB clients cannot create new shares).

Feedback

Found a bug ? Have an enhancement request ? Head over to the GitHub issue tracker of the project if you need to report or ask something. If you are filling in on a bug, please include as much information as you can about the issue, and try to recreate the same bug in a simple, easily reproductible situation.

See also

• fs, the core Pyfilesystem2 library

• fs.archive, enhanced archive filesystems for Pyfilesystem2

• fs.sshfs, Pyfilesystem2 over SSH using paramiko