# SMBProtocolFactory Class

For those who want to utilize pysmb in Twisted framework, pysmb has a smb.SMBProtocol.SMBProtocol implementation. In most cases, you do not need to touch or import the SMBProtocol directly. All the SMB functionalities are exposed in the SMBProtocolFactory.

In your project,

  1. Create a new class and subclass SMBProtocolFactory.

  2. Override the SMBProtocolFactory.onAuthOK and SMBProtocolFactory.onAuthFailed instance methods to provide your own post-authenthentication handling. Once SMBProtocolFactory.onAuthOK has been called by pymsb internals, your application is ready to communicate with the remote SMB/CIFS service through the SMBProtocolFactory public methods such as SMBProtocolFactory.storeFile, SMBProtocolFactory.retrieveFile, etc.

  3. When you want to disconnect from the remote SMB/CIFS server, just call SMBProtocolFactory.closeConnection method.

All the SMBProtocolFactory public methods that provide file functionlities will return a twisted.internet.defer.Deferred instance. A NotReadyError exception is raised when the underlying SMB is not authenticated. If the underlying SMB connection has been terminated, a NotConnectedError exception is raised.

All the file operation methods in SMBProtocolFactory class accept a timeout parameter. This parameter specifies the time limit where pysmb will wait for the entire file operation (except storeFile and retrieveFile methods) to complete. If the file operation fails to complete within the timeout period, the returned Deferred instance’s errback method will be called with a SMBTimeout exception.

If you are interested in learning the results of the operation or to know when the operation has completed, you should add a handling method to the returned Deferred instance via Deferred.addCallback. If the file operation fails, the Deferred.errback function will be called with an OperationFailure; on timeout, it will be called with a SMBTimeout.

## Example

The following illustrates a simple file retrieving implementation.:

    import tempfile
    from twisted.internet import reactor
    from smb.SMBProtocol import SMBProtocolFactory

    class RetrieveFileFactory(SMBProtocolFactory):

        def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
            SMBProtocolFactory.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)

        def fileRetrieved(self, write_result):
            file_obj, file_attributes, file_size = write_result

            # Retrieved file contents are inside file_obj
            # Do what you need with the file_obj and then close it
            # Note that the file obj is positioned at the end-of-file,
            # so you might need to perform a file_obj.seek() to if you
            # need to read from the beginning
            file_obj.close()

            self.transport.loseConnection()

        def onAuthOK(self):
            d = self.retrieveFile(self.service, self.path, tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile())
            d.addCallback(self.fileRetrieved)
            d.addErrback(self.d.errback)

        def onAuthFailed(self):
            print 'Auth failed'

    # There will be some mechanism to capture userID, password, client_machine_name, server_name and server_ip
    # client_machine_name can be an arbitary ASCII string
    # server_name should match the remote machine name, or else the connection will be rejected
    factory = RetrieveFileFactory(userID, password, client_machine_name, server_name, use_ntlm_v2 = True)
    factory.service = 'smbtest'
    factory.path = '/rfc1001.txt'
    reactor.connectTCP(server_ip, 139, factory)

## SMB2 Support

Starting from pysmb 1.1.0, pysmb will utilize SMB2 protocol for communication if the remote SMB/CIFS service supports SMB2. Otherwise, it will fallback automatically back to using SMB1 protocol.

To disable SMB2 protocol in pysmb, set the SUPPORT_SMB2 flag in the smb_structs module to False before creating the SMBProtocolFactory instance.:

    from smb import smb_structs
    smb_structs.SUPPORT_SMB2 = False

## Caveats

- A new factory instance must be created for each SMB connection to the remote SMB/CIFS service. Avoid reusing the same factory instance for more than one SMB connection.

- The remote SMB/CIFS server usually imposes a limit of the number of concurrent file operations for each client. For example, to transfer a thousand files, you may need to setup a queue in your application and call storeFile or retrieveFile in batches.

- The timeout parameter in the file operation methods are not precise; it is accurate to within 1 second interval, i.e. with a timeout of 0.5 sec, pysmb might raise SMBTimeout exception after 1.5 sec.