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Linux (UNIX) machines can also browse and mount SMB shares. Note that this can be done whether the server is a Windows machine or a Samba server!
An SMB client program for UNIX machines is included with the Samba distribution. It provides an ftp-like interface on the command line. You can use this utility to transfer files between a Windows 'server' and a Linux client.
Most Linux distributions also now include the useful smbfs package, which allows one to mount and umount SMB shares. More on smbfs below.
To see which shares are available on a given host, run:
/usr/bin/smbclient -L host
where 'host' is the name of the machine that you wish to view. this will return a list of 'service' names - that is, names of drives or printers that it can share with you. Unless the SMB server has no security configured, it will ask you for a password. Get it the password for the 'guest' account or for your personal account on that machine.
For example:
smbclient -L zimmerman
The output of this command should look something like this:
Server time is Sat Aug 10 15:58:27 1996
Timezone is UTC+10.0
Password:
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Windows NT 3.51] Server=[NT LAN Manager 3.51]
Server=[ZIMMERMAN] User=[] Workgroup=[WORKGROUP] Domain=[]
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin
public Disk Public
C$ Disk Default share
IPC$ IPC Remote IPC
OReilly Printer OReilly
print$ Disk Printer Drivers
This machine has a browse list:
Server Comment
--------- -------
HOPPER Samba 1.9.15p8
KERNIGAN Samba 1.9.15p8
LOVELACE Samba 1.9.15p8
RITCHIE Samba 1.9.15p8
ZIMMERMAN
The browse list shows other SMB servers with resources to share on the network.
To use the client, run:
/usr/bin/smbclient service <password>
where 'service' is a machine and share name. For example, if you are trying to reach a directory that has been shared as 'public' on a machine called zimmerman, the service would be called \\zimmerman\public. However, due to shell restrictions, you will need to escape the backslashes, so you end up with something like this:
/usr/bin/smbclient \\\\zimmerman\\public mypasswd
where 'mypasswd' is the literal string of your password.
You will get the smbclient prompt:
Server time is Sat Aug 10 15:58:44 1996
Timezone is UTC+10.0
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Windows NT 3.51] Server=[NT LAN Manager 3.51]
smb: \>
Type 'h' to get help using smbclient:
smb: \> h
ls dir lcd cd pwd
get mget put mput rename
more mask del rm mkdir
md rmdir rd prompt recurse
translate lowercase print printmode queue
cancel stat quit q exit
newer archive tar blocksize tarmode
setmode help ? !
smb: \>
If you can use ftp, you shouldn't need the man pages for smbclient.
Although you can use smbclient for testing, you will soon tire of it for real work. For that you will probably want to use the smbfs package. Smbfs comes with two simple utilties, smbmount and smbumount. They work just like mount and umount for SMB shares.
One important thing to note: You must have smbfs support compiled into your kernel to use these utilities!
The following shows a typical use of smbmount to mount an SMB share called "customers" from a machine called "samba1":
[root at postel]# smbmount "\\\\samba1\\customers" -U rtg2t -c 'mount /customers -u 500 -g 100'
Added interface ip=192.168.35.84 bcast=192.168.255.255 nmask=255.255.0.0
Got a positive name query response from 192.168.168.158 ( 192.168.168.158 )
Server time is Tue Oct 5 10:27:36 1999
Timezone is UTC-4.0
Password:
Domain=[IPM] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.0.3]
security=user
Issuing a mount command will now show the share mounted, just as if it were an NFS export:
[root at postel]# mount
/dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=622)
//SAMBA1/CUSTOMERS on /customers type smbfs (0)
Please see the manual pages for smbmount and smbumount for details on the above operation.
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