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 This class acts as a Ruby wrapper around the smbclient command line utility, allowing access to Samba (SMB, CIFS) 
 shares from Ruby.
 What's special about Sambala's implementation, is that it allows for both both queue
 and interactive commands operations.  While interactive mode is invoked in a blocking manner, the queue mode behaves as 
 a non-blocking, multi-threaded, background process.

 Sambala works on Unix derivatives operating systems (Linux, BSD, OSX, else), as long as the operating system has the 
 smbclient utility installed somewhere in the environment's PATH.
 
 Sambala supports most, but not all, smbclient features.  I didn't to this point implement commands relying on posix 
 server support, because I wanted Sambala to be server agnostic.  If some commands or interfaces you would like to use 
 is not supported by Sambala, email me and I may answer with a quick feature update when feasible.

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Example:

  samba = Sambala.new(  :domain   =>  'NTDOMAIN', 
                      :host     =>  'sambaserver',
                      :share    =>  'sambashare',
                      :user     =>  'walrus', 
                      :password =>  'eggman')
                      
  samba.cd('myfolder')   # =>  true
  samba.put(:from => 'aLocalFile.txt')    # =>  [false, "aLocalFile.txt does not exist\r\n"]
  samba.close

For detailed documentation refer to the online ruby-doc:
http://sambala.rubyforge.org/ruby-doc/

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Copyright (c) 2008 Louis-Philippe Perron

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