pysmb

v1.2.13

pysmb is an experimental SMB/CIFS library written in Python to support file sharing between Windows and Linux machines For more information about how to use this package see README

Latest version published 3 months ago

License: (Libpng OR Zlib)

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Package Health Score

77 / 100

security
No known security issues
popularity
Popular
maintenance
Healthy
community
Sustainable

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Popularity

Popular

GitHub Stars: 357
Forks: 93
Contributors: -

Direct Usage Popularity

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package pysmb, we found that it has been starred 357 times.

Security

No known security issues

Security and license risk for latest version

Release Date: Sep 20, 2025
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All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

License

(Libpng OR Zlib)

Security Policy

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Maintenance

Healthy

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 63
Open PR: 2
Last Release: 3 months ago
Last Commit: 3 months ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of pysmb based on released PyPI versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Healthy.

We found that pysmb demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Community

Sustainable

Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: No
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 0
Funding: No

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Package

Python Versions Compatibility: ==2.4.*, ==2.5.*, ==2.6.*, ==2.7.*, ==3.*

Age: 14 years
Latest Release: 3 months ago
Dependencies: 2 Direct / 2 Total
Versions: 51
Maintainers: 1
Wheels: OS Independent

Not sure how to use pysmb?

To help you get started, we've collected the most common ways that pysmb is being used within popular public projects.

OpenPrinting / system-config-printer / newprinter.py View on Github

store.clear ()
        busy(self.SMBBrowseDialog)
        class X:
            pass
        dummy = X()
        dummy.smbc_type = pysmb.smbc.PRINTER_SHARE
        dummy.name = _('Scanning...')
        dummy.comment = ''
        store.append(None, [dummy])
        while gtk.events_pending ():
            gtk.main_iteration ()

        debug = 0
        if get_debugging ():
            debug = 10
        smbc_auth = pysmb.AuthContext (self.SMBBrowseDialog)
        ctx = pysmb.smbc.Context (debug=debug,
                                  auth_fn=smbc_auth.callback)
        entries = None
        try:
            while smbc_auth.perform_authentication () > 0:
                try:
                    entries = ctx.opendir ("smb://").getdents ()
                except Exception, e:
                    smbc_auth.failed (e)
        except RuntimeError, (e, s):
            if e != errno.ENOENT:
                debugprint ("Runtime error: %s" % repr ((e, s)))
        except:
            nonfatalException ()

        store.clear ()

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pysmb dependencies

pyasn1 tqdm

FAQs

What is pysmb?

pysmb is an experimental SMB/CIFS library written in Python to support file sharing between Windows and Linux machines. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for pysmb, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is pysmb popular?

The python package pysmb receives a total of 264,596 weekly downloads. As such, pysmb popularity was classified as a popular. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is pysmb well maintained?

We found that pysmb demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity. It has a community of 0 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is pysmb safe to use?

The python package pysmb was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 7 December-2025, at 03:01 (UTC).

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