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Sun, 06 Jan 2008Getting Started with smbpython After many false starts, Samba is starting to acquire some client-side scripting support. The language being used is Python, although Swig is being used to generate bindings. At a later stage perhaps other scripting languages might be supported. At the moment the Python bindings are in their infancy, but it's still possible to do some useful things. To start hacking on the Samba Python bindings check out a copy of the source from Subversion and build as per usual: Now these commands will build a complete Samba environment including the Python bindings. For the moment we will be working directly out of the build directory and not bother installing libraries, executables, etc. The only tweak we need to do is to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point at the shared libraries we have just built and then run a Python executable with all the Samba goodies compiled in:$ svn co svn://svn.samba.org/samba/branches/SAMBA_4_0 [...stuff...] $ cd SAMBA_4_0/source $ ./autogen.sh && ./configure.developer && make [...more stuff...] What can we do from here? I'm hoping to write some more entries about some of the existing Python bindings, starting with tdb and ldb.$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/bin/shared $ bin/smbpython Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 5 2007, 13:38:40) [GCC 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> Thanks to Jelmer Vernooij for taking my bits and pieces of decrepit Swig bindings and turning it into something useful. posted at: 21:30 | path: /software/samba | permanent link to this entry | ||||||||||||||||