pv-node-smb2

SMB2 Client for Node.js

Introduction

This library calls the C libraries for libsmbclient to read and search through directories.

The original fork was unable to connect to newer servers, and rather than hacking about with the smb2 protocol, it is far easier to leverage the great work of the samba team, and use their libsmbclient library via NAPI bindings. This is much quicker than other wrappers that fork/exec smbclient, and the only OS pre-req (on Linux) is to install the libsmbclient-dev package.

Installation

npm install -S pv-node-smb2

API

Asynchronicity

No async calls supported yet; there's a skeleton for a read function, but much more work is still needed.

Sync calls

import {PvDirent,PvNodeSmb2} from 'pv-node-smb2'

const smb2Client = new PvNodeSmb2('workgroup', 'user', 'password')

const content = await smb2Client.readFileSync('smb://<host or IP>/Windows Path/goes/here/foo.txt')
console.log(content.toString('base64')

Connection management

each instance of this class will have its own connection.

Unless you have set autoCloseTimeout to 0 during client construction, the connection will be closed automatically.

If you have set autoCloseTimeout to 0, the connection MUST be closed manually:

smb2Client.disconnect();

High level methods

smb2Client.exists ( path, callback )

Test whether or not the given path exists by checking with the file system.

Example:

smb2Client.exists('path\\to\\my\\file.txt', function(err, exists) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log(exists ? "it's there" : "it's not there!");
});

smb2Client.mkdir ( path, [mode], callback )

Asynchronous mkdir(2): create a directory.

mode defaults to 0o777.

Example:

smb2Client.mkdir('path\\to\\the\\directory', function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('Directory created!');
});

smb2Client.readdir ( path, [options], callback )

• path String
• options Object
  • encoding String | Null default = null
• callback Function

Asynchronous readdir(3): reads the contents of a directory.

The result is an array of the names of the files in the directory excluding '.' and '..'.

If you want the response to include stats, you need to pass the stats: true. Response will be an Array of this form:

[
    {
        name: String,
        birthtime: Date,
        mtime: Date,
        atime: Date,
        ctime: Date,
        isDirectory(): boolean
    },
...
]

Example:

smb2Client.readdir('Windows\\System32', function(err, files) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log(files);
});

smb2Client.stat ( path, callback )

• path String
• callback Function

Asynchronous stat: query stats of a directory or file.

Response will be an object with the following structure :

{
    birthtime: Date,
    mtime: Date,
    atime: Date,
    ctime: Date,
    isDirectory(): boolean,
    size: number
}

smb2Client.readFile ( path, [options], callback )

• path String
• options Object
  • encoding String | Null default = null
• callback Function

Asynchronously reads the entire content of a file.

Example:

smb2Client.readFile('path\\to\\my\\file.txt', function(err, content) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log(content);
});

If no encoding is specified, then the raw buffer is returned.

smb2Client.rename ( oldPath, newPath, [ options, ] callback )

Asynchronous rename(2): rename a file.

smb2Client.rename(
  'path\\to\\my\\file.txt',
  'new\\path\\to\\my\\new-file-name.txt',
  function(err) {
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log('file has been renamed');
  }
);

Existing files are not replaced by default, you need to pass the replace: true option for this use case:

smb2Client.rename(
  'path\\to\\my\\file.txt',
  'path\\to\\existing\\file.txt',
  {
    replace: true
  },
  function(err) {
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log('file has been renamed');
  }
);

smb2Client.rmdir ( path, callback )

Asynchronous rmdir(2): delete an empty directory.

Example:

smb2Client.rmdir('path\\to\\the\\directory', function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('Directory deleted!');
});

smb2Client.unlink ( path, callback )

Asynchronous unlink(2): delete a file.

smb2Client.unlink('path\\to\\my\\file.txt', function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log('file has been deleted');
});

smb2Client.writeFile ( filename, data, [options], callback )

• filename String
• data String | Buffer
• options Object
  • encoding String | Null default = 'utf8'
• callback Function

Asynchronously writes data to a file, replacing the file if it already exists. data can be a string or a buffer.

The encoding option is ignored if data is a buffer.

Example:

smb2Client.writeFile('path\\to\\my\\file.txt', 'Hello Node', function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log("It's saved!");
});

smb2Client.truncate ( filename, length, callback )

• filename String
• length Number
• callback Function

Asynchronously truncate a file to a size of precisely length bytes.

Example:

smb2Client.truncate('path\\to\\my\\file.txt', 10, function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;
  console.log("It's truncated!");
});

Streams

smb2Client.createReadStream ( fileName, [options], callback )

Returns a read stream on the file.

Unlike fs.createReadStream, this function is asynchronous, as we need use asynchronous smb requests to get the stream.

Example:

smb2Client.createReadStream('path\\to\\the\\file', function(err, readStream) {
  if (err) throw err;
  var writeStream = fs.createWriteStream('localFile');
  readStream.pipe(writeStream);
});

Supported options:

• autoClose: whether the fd should be closed at the end or on error, default true
• end: offset in the file after which to stop reading, default Infinity
• fd: if specified, the path will be ignored and this opened file will be used instead
• flags: see Node documentation, default 'r'
• start: offset in the file from which to start reading, default 0

smb2Client.createWriteStream ( fileName, [options], callback )

Returns a write stream on the file.

Unlike fs.createWriteStream, this function is asynchronous, as we need use asynchronous smb requests to get the stream.

Example:

smb2Client.createWriteStream('path\\to\\the\\file', function(err, writeStream) {
  if (err) throw err;
  var readStream = fs.createReadStream('localFile');
  readStream.pipe(writeStream);
});

Supported options:

• autoClose: whether the fd should be closed at the end or on error, default true
• fd: if specified, the path will be ignored and this opened file will be used instead
• flags: see Node documentation, default 'wx'
• start: offset in the file from which to start writing, default 0

Low-level API

smb2Client.open('path\\to\\the\\file', 'r', function(err, fd) {
  if (err) throw err;

  smb2Client.read(
    fd, // file descriptor
    Buffer.alloc(10), // buffer where to store the data
    0, // offset in the buffer
    10, // number of bytes to read
    0, // offset in the file
    function(err, bytesRead, buffer) {
      smb2Client.close(fd, function() {});

      if (err) throw cb(err);
      console.log(bytesRead, buffer);
    }
  );
});

smb2Client.open('path\\to\\the\\file', 'w', function(err, fd) {
  if (err) throw err;

  smb2Client.write(
    fd, // file descriptor
    Buffer.from('foo bar\n'), // data to write to the file
    0, // offset in the buffer
    10, // number of bytes to write
    0, // offset in the file
    function(err, bytesWritten, buffer) {
      smb2Client.close(fd, function() {});

      if (err) throw cb(err);
      console.log(bytesWritten);
    }
  );
});

This API is modeled after Node's fs module.

Note: be careful of autoCloseTimeout with this process as it is not intended to cover multiple method calls, you should set it to 0 and manually disconnect().

Contributors

• Benjamin Chelli
• Fabrice Marsaud
• Leo Martins

References

The[MS-SMB2]: Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol Versions 2 and 3
Copyright (C) 2014 Microsoft
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc246482.aspx

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Benjamin Chelli <[e-mail]>

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