from pysamba import * ... and go. Server login is encapsulated in the constructor, so just provide the require parameters, and start working with your favorite smb share. PySamba is easy to use, and easy to install.

PySamba current version is 1.0. This version is the first major release, and it’s fully functional. You can download it from here.

See the INSTALL file, but the installation process is the following:

• Get Samba-3.0.24 and uncompress it.
• copy py_smb.c and py_smb.h into samba-3.0.24/source/python replacing the existing files
• go to samba-3.0.24/source and issue a configure --with-python=python. Then make , make install, make python_ext, make install This will install python’s dynamic library.
• Import pysamba from the directory where pysamba is, or copy it to any place under the PYTHONPATH
• You’re ready

The implemented methods in class pysamba.SMBManager are:

• __init__(self, host, res, user, passwd, domain)
• Connect(self)
• DiskAvail(self)
• List(self,dir)
• DirSize(self, dirn=None)
• GetDir(self, remote, local)
• PutDir(self, local, remote)
• GetFile(self,remote,local, createdirs=False)
• Chdir(self, dir)
• PutFile(self,local,remote)
• Pwd(self)
• Unlink(self, fname)
• Exists(self, fname)
• Mkdir(self, dirname, parent=False)
• Rmdir(self, dirname, force=False)
• PrettyList(self,dir=None)

from pysamba import SMBManager

host="smbserver"
share="myshare"
user="myuser"
passwd="mysecret"
domain="MYDOMAIN"

svr = SMBManager(host,share,user,passwd,domain)
if not svr.Connect():
   print "Can’t connect with server"
   sys.exit(1)

   print svr.DiskAvail()            
   print svr.DirSize("\\onedir")    
   svr.GetDir("\\onedir", "/tmp")   
   svr.Mkdir("\\backups\\src", True)
   svr.PutDir("/usr/tmp/samba-3.0.24","\\backups\\src")
   svr.Rmdir("\\crappydir",True)

   svr.Chdir("\\onedir\\listmedir")
   print svr.Pwd()
   svr.PrettyList()

   svr.GetFile("\\onedir\\remote.png","/tmp/local.png")
   svr.PutFile("/tmp/local2.png","\\onedir\\remote2.png")