#Xamarin.Android.jCIFS

This is a C# binding for the Java CIFS (jCIFS) Client Library (version 1.3.18) for Samba networking.

JCIFS is an Open Source client library that implements the CIFS/SMB networking protocol in 100% Java.

You can read/write, delete, make directories, rename, list contents of a directory, list the workgroups/ntdomains and servers on the network, list the shares of a server, open named pipes, authenticate web clients ...etc.

###License:

JCIFS is Licensed Under the LGPL 2.1 and this project is [licensed] (http://opensource.org/licenses/LGPL-3.0) under LPGL 3.0.

###API Documentation:

Consult the jCIFS site for API documention and usage, this is a C# binding library and does not implement/change anything within the jcifs-1.3.18.jar.

###Example:

####Usage of Jcifs.Smb.SmbFileInputStream:

// This is NOT best-practice code, just showing a demo Jcifs api call
public async Task getFileContents ()
{
	await Task.Run (() => {
		var smbStream = new SmbFileInputStream ("smb://guest@10.10.10.5/code/test.txt");
		byte[] b = new byte[8192];
		int n;
		while ((n = smbStream.Read (b)) > 0) {
			Console.Write (Encoding.UTF8.GetString (b).ToCharArray (), 0, n);
		}
		Button button = FindViewById<Button> (Resource.Id.myButton);
		RunOnUiThread(() => {
			button.Text = Encoding.UTF8.GetString (b);
		});
	}
	).ContinueWith ((Task arg) => {
		Console.WriteLine (arg.Status);
		if (arg.Status == TaskStatus.Faulted)
			Console.WriteLine (arg.Exception);
	}
	);
}

###Note:

**The entire jCIFS library is not bound by this project, consult the "Metadata.xml" file in the binding project for method renames and class exclusions. **