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Implementing Samba 4

By : Marcelo Leal
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Implementing Samba 4

By: Marcelo Leal

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Implementing Samba 4
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References
Index

Exploring and using the Python interface of the Samba 4 Server


Python [59] is a programming language that runs on various platforms and operating systems (for example, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, Illumos [60], FreeBSD [69], Mac OS, and others). Python has some similarities with other interpreted programming languages such as Tcl, Perl, and Ruby, but includes some distinguishing features, such as [61] strong introspection capabilities, intuitive object orientation, full modularity (supporting hierarchical packages), and so on. Based on Wheezy 7.2, a Debian GNU/Linux distribution, we can start playing with Python and the bindings from Samba 4 very quickly. Let's just start looking at the package that already has the python modules ready for installation on Debian Wheezy:

root@addc:~# apt-cache show python-samba

Description-en: Python bindings for Samba
    Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems,
    providing support for cross-platform file sharing with Microsoft...