standalone libraries for SFTP and SMB

Andrew andrew.chace at gmail.com
Tue May 23 16:38:44 PDT 2006


On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 18:20 -0400, Anish Mistry wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 May 2006 17:59, Andrew wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm writing a small application that saves files over a network.
> > I'd like to add support for SFTP and SMB. Does anyone know of an
> > independent library for each?
> >
> > I'd like to use libsmbclient from the Samba project, but I haven't
> > found a simple way to build the library without installing all of
> > Samba.
> >
> > OpenSSH includes an SFTP binary, of course, but I'd have to rewrite
> > several complex makefiles to generate it without installing all of
> > OpenSSH.
> >
> > Thought about using the libraries from Gnome-VFS, but they have
> > quite a few dependencies, and are sort of overkill for this
> > project.
> >
> > So yes, I have a couple of options, and yes I'm a little bit lazy.
> > Why reinvent the wheel? ;-)

> /usr/ports/security/libssh2
> 
thanks. I'll check it out...
-Andrew



More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list