liBDSM

lib Defective SMb (libDSM) is a SMB protocol client implementation in pure old C, with a lot less features than Samba but is simpler, and has with a more permissive license (currently LGPL + proprietary).

The initial goal of this project is to have a library that can access most SMB shares to read files and that has with a license compatible with the iOS/Android/WinRT appstores in order to integrate it into VLC for iOS and VLC for Android.

This library is also licensable under a proprietary license, if LGPL is not good enough for you.

The lib is provided as a static library or as a dynamically linked library. A few useless (yet) utils are also provided, mostly for testing purpose.

Features

Here's a list of the currently supported features:

• NETBIOS
  • Basic bi-directionnal NETBIOS name resolution
  • Hacky LAN SMB servers discovery (Listing all the smb servers on the LAN, no WINS, etc.)
  • Basic NETBIOS Session transport layer
• SMB
  • Support only required parts of 'NT LM 0.12' (aka CIFS?) dialect.
  • User based authentication
  • List Shares
  • Browse folders
  • Read file
  • Write file
  • Delete file
  • Delete empty folder
  • Move and rename file/folder
  • Create new folder
  • No copy, lock, RPCs, etc. [Hum... yet]

Support

liBDSM has been tested/reported to work with the following devices/OSes:

• Windows 7
• Windows 8/8.1
• Samba
• smbX (OSX new smb implementation)
• QNAP TS-212
• A cheap NAS whose name i can't remember :)

Feel free to contribute items to this list (or network trace of not working devices)

Building

Requirements

• A Unix system with a bash-compatible shell
• C99 C compiler
• (GNU) Make
• Autotools
• libc with iconv
• getopt_long
• GNU tasn1 compiler/support library

The build dependencies can be installed on Debian(-based) systems using

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool pkg-config libtasn1-3-dev libtasn1-3-bin libbsd-dev

HowTo

$> ./bootstrap
$> ./configure --prefix=/your/prefix
$> make
$> make install # maybe

TODO

• HEAVILY refactor. Any help is welcome.
• Support more of the SMBv2 and v3 protocols.

Contributing

• Fork videolabs/libdsm
• Make a feature branch
• Commits your work there
• Make a pull request
• ...
• Profit !