I needed to connect, with authentication, to a SAMBA shared drive to download and process data files for one of my applications. Thinking VFS2 would do the job, I had a go at it.Results were good, so now documented here:
private static void GetFiles() throws IOException {
jcifs.Config.registerSmbURLHandler();
NtlmPasswordAuthentication auth = new NtlmPasswordAuthentication(
prop.getProperty("smbDomain"), prop.getProperty("smbUser"),
prop.getProperty("smbPass"));
StaticUserAuthenticator authS = new StaticUserAuthenticator(
prop.getProperty("smbDomain"), prop.getProperty("smbUser"),
prop.getProperty("smbPass"));
FileSystemOptions opts = new FileSystemOptions();
DefaultFileSystemConfigBuilder.getInstance().setUserAuthenticator(opts,
authS);
SmbFile smbFile = new SmbFile(prop.getProperty("smbURL"),auth);
FileSystemManager fs = VFS.getManager();
String[] files = smbFile.list();
for(String file:files) {
SmbFile remFile = new SmbFile(prop.getProperty("smbURL") + file, auth);
SmbFileInputStream smbfos = new SmbFileInputStream(remFile);
OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(file);
byte[] b = new byte[8192];
int n;
while ((n = smbfos.read(b)) > 0) {
out.write(b, 0, n);
}
smbfos.close();
out.close();
}
}
As you can see from the above, this simply copies the files to local, preserving the filename, which is exactly what I want. If you need to write files, it is very similar, just use the SmbFileOutputStream instead!
Nice! VFS2 comes through once again!
