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Isuru Jayathissa
Isuru Jayathissa

Reputation: 488

SMB/CIFS protocol for iOS

Does anyone know library to browse (and upload/download/stream) on smb shares (SMB/CIFS protocol) from iOS. This must be support for all the Windows OS. This is grade help for me.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1578

Answers (1)

DaveHowell
DaveHowell

Reputation: 1264

Not quite an answer to your question, but I have some tips:

  1. If you write your own client, don't trust the IETF RFC. Microsoft hasn't been scrupulous in its adherence to the spec. And be sure to test with Unicode file/folder names, all major versions of Windows, and so on.
  2. Don't write your own client. :-)
  3. If you use an open-source library, make sure it's not GPL or LGPL, unless you plan to open-source your entire project. LGPL almost works—it does on Mac OS X—but it requires dynamic linking, which isn't supported on iOS.
  4. You may see apps in the app store that use GPL or LGPL libraries, but don't assume that it is safe to use them yourself. Those apps are often blatantly abusing the license.
  5. opensource.apple.com has an smb client that's a great reference but it's a file system kernel extension, so you can't use it directly.

Upvotes: 4

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