---
title: t SMB
description: Available triggers
documentId: ipaas-smb-trigger
locale: en-US
---

The [**SMB**](https://camel.apache.org/components/4.10.x/smb-component.html) component allows you to integrate the flow with directories shared via SMB/CIFS protocol, enabling the sending of files directly to a remote server.

The integration supports sending multiple files in a single execution and allows configuring control parameters and message headers to customize the processing and routing of sent files.

**URI Syntax**: `smb:hostname:port/shareName`

## Main fields

*Path parameters*

| **Name** | **Description** | **Default** | **Type** |
|----------|---------------|------------|----------|
| `hostname` (common)  | (required) The hostname or IP address of the share.     | —  | String |
| `port` (common)      | The port number of the share.                           |445 | int    |
| `shareName` (common) | (required) The name of the shared directory.            | —  | String |
| `path` (common) | Base directory within the share.                             | —  | String |

*Query parameters*

| **Name** | **Description** | **Default** | **Type** |
|----------|---------------|------------|----------|
| `password` (security) | The password to access the share.                      | —   | String |
| `username` (security) | The username required to access the share.             | —   | String |
| `delay` (scheduler)   | Milliseconds before the next poll.                     | 500 | long   |

## Example

The flow below reads files from an SMB server:

<Steps>
  <Step>
  The flow starts by making a connection to the SMB server using the URI `smb:ec2-18-207-116-134.compute-1.amazonaws.com:445/myshare` (server + port + share):
  - Authenticates the share with `username` and `password`.
  - Defines the monitored directory through the `path: "/"` parameter (root of the share).
  - Configures the check interval with `delay: 60000` (checks for new files every 60 seconds).
  </Step>
  <Step>
  Then, it logs the detected file, displaying the name via `${header.CamelFileName}`.
  </Step>
  <Step>
  Next, it converts the SMB object to a stream using `setBody` with `${body.getInputStream()}` to make the content readable.
  </Step>
  <Step>
  Finally, it displays the already converted content in another log.
  </Step>
</Steps>


```yaml
- from:
  uri: "smb:ec2-18-207-116-134.compute-1.amazonaws.com:445/myshare"
  parameters:
    username: yourusername
    password: yourpassword
    path: "/"
    delay: 60000
  steps:
    - log:
      message: "Got file ${header.CamelFileName} with body ${body}"
    - setBody:
      simple: ${body.getInputStream()}
    - log:
      message: "File content: ${body}"
```

<Callout type="NOTE" title="NOTE">
The body generated by the consumer is of type ["com.hierynomus.smbj.share.File"](https://www.javadoc.io/doc/com.hierynomus/smbj/latest/com/hierynomus/smbj/share/File.html), which does not have native integration with Camel. Therefore, the "getInputStream()" method is used to get the data stream (stream) of the content and allow its consumption.
</Callout>

![](https://creative-ball-51b3fc85c0.media.strapiapp.com/smb_trigger_616e0e13fa.png)

#### Result

```
2025-10-17 18:23:40,390 INFO  [route1] (Camel (camel-1) thread #2 - smb://ec2-18-207-116-134.compute-1.amazonaws.com:445/myshare) Got file  with body File{fileId=SMB2FileId{persistentHandle=1b 8e e3 75 00 00 00 00}, fileName='\\ec2-18-207-116-134.compute-1.amazonaws.com\myshare\poc-smb.txt'}
2025-10-17 18:23:40,405 INFO  [route1] (Camel (camel-1) thread #2 - smb://ec2-18-207-116-134.compute-1.amazonaws.com:445/myshare) File content: It worked!

```