External Monitor for Shared Folders

Hi guys,

 

 

Samba is an opensource implementation of Microsoft's SMB protocol. Once you figure out the options for smbclient to get a response when the fileshare is available, you could script it following the external HTTP POST monitor example. In a quick test, this command worked to list the server's c$ share:

 

 

smbclient //1.1.1.1/c$ -U test_user -W test_domain -c ls

 

 

This command makes a request to host 1.1.1.1, accesses the c$ share as test_user on test_domain and executes a directory listing (-ls).

 

 

So you could replace the entire line in the sample monitor:

 

 

curl -fNs http://${NODE}:${PORT}${URI} -d "${DATA}" | grep -i "${RECV}" 2>&1 > /dev/null

 

 

with:

 

 

smbclient //${NODE}/c$ -p ${PORT} -U test_user -W test_domain -c ls | grep -i "${RECV}" 2>&1 > /dev/null

 

 

Note that I haven't tested the smbclient command in the shell script. If the server requires a password you'd need to add it to the smbclient command.

 

 

Here are a few related links for Samba:

 

 

Samba man page:

 

http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smbclient.1.html

 

 

Samba examples:

 

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-6345-1047248.html

 

 

Aaron