how can i get file from smb file server at my app iOS

Question

I am developing an app,I want to get file from shared folder,I used bonjour to find file server around me and I get the ip address and server type; now I want to get the shared file from these file server?how can I get these? I google it and I know to get this file I have to implement something like afp or smb ,then I can get file. but can somebody tell me exactly what should I do? and can somebody give me demo? I searched a smb demo "tango" at github,but its doesn't work.

Answer 1

Just to be clear, 'bonjour', 'mDNS' or whatever else you want to call it assists purely with discovery, which you can do easily enough in iOS / OS X, assuming the SMB server you want is advertising itself as a service of type _smb._.tcp.. See NSNetServiceBrowser and related classes on how to do that.

The hard bit, AFAIK, is actually connecting to said server and retrieving the file. The best resource I can point to is this question here, and perhaps this client library (although I've never used it personally).

Hope this helps.