Hi, I am working on a directory synchronisation tool for Linux. $ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu3) $ python -V Python 2.5.2 $ smbclient --version Version 3.0.28a
I first designed it to work on the local filesystem. I am using filecmp.py (distributed with Python) for comparing the files. Of course I had to modify it in a way that it will return object rather than stdout. I have this compare method in my main class which is os.walk()-ing through the directories and labeling the files on the GUI according to this returned object by filecmp.py. Now I want add support for syncing between (unix and NT) network shares without having to change my abstraction much. At first googling I hit a samba discussion appeared on this list ages ago. It did not help me much though. I also found this pysmbc, libsmbclient bindings, written by Tim Waug but it requires libsmbclient-3.2.x. which requires libc6 >= 2.8~20080505 which comes with Intreprid but I have reasons not to upgrade my Hardy. Another thing I found was pysamba, by Juan M. Casillas, but it needs a bit of hack; samba needs to be configured with python. I am looking for something that won't bother the end user nor me. I want to keep it as simple as possible. I will distribute the libraries myself if I have to and if licence is not an issue. If I have to summarise, I need to get m_time and size (and preferably stick with os.walk and filecmp.py if possible) and copy files back and forth using samba (unix <-> NT). I don't wanna reinvent the wheel or overengineer anything but if I can do this without any additional libraries, great! I would appreciate any advice on this. Thanks.. -- Fatih
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