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What can smbclient do for me?
How do I use it?
Now I've found a service how do I connect?
What does smbclient need to work?
What if it goes wrong? Who can I contact?
What can smbclient do for me?
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smbclient will let you access any shared resources on
a WfW, Win95, OS/2, or unix box running samba. That is any shared discs
or printers can be accessed from your RiscPC. You can find out what
shares are available on a machine. It also allows you to send (but
not receive) popup messages to PCs.
How do I use it?
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This is a short intro on how to use this port of smbclient more information
can be found in the man page included with this distribution.
smbclient is very similar to ftp, you connect to a machine and then browse
the remote file system and download or upload files. Unlike ftp you must
know what service you want before you connect to the machine.
You can find out what shares are available by using the '-L hostname'
option to list the shares. When connecting to my unix box the smbclient
shows the following:
I have an internal network not connected to the internet called
clubs.uk with machines named after Liverpool clubs.
*smbclient -L voodoo.clubs.uk
myhostname is (wildlife.clubs.uk)
login name is WILDLIFE
Server time is Thu Jul 3 19:54:42 1997
Timezone is UTC+1.0
Domain=[CLUBBERS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 1.9.15p8]
login appeared to be ok
Server=[voodoo] User=[simon] Workgroup=[CLUBBERS] Domain=[CLUBBERS]
server info completed
Sharename Type Comment
--------- ---- -------
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 1.9.15p8)
lp Printer local line printer
ps_hi Printer Ghostscript (epson9high)
ps_lo Printer Ghostscript (epson)
public Disk Public file space
simon Disk Home Directories
www Disk WWW work space
This machine has a browse list:
Server Comment
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VOODOO Samba 1.9.15p8
EASYSTREET
UNIT Ben Rayner
CREAM Aaaargh.....
GARLANDS CHARLES MASSEY
Now I've found a service how do I connect?
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A quirk of unixlib I guess is that you need to escape all the \'s.
connecting to a service looks like this:
smbclient \\\\VOODOO\\public
instead of the normal:
smbclient \\VOODOO\public
which you would find in the man page included in this archive.
when prompted for a password for a public directory just press enter.
when you connect you will be prompted with the root of this share.
you can now move about it using 'cd', view directory listings with
'ls' or 'dir' and move files about just like ftp.
I've had transfer rates of almost 400k/sec for large file transfers
in a taskwindow on my StrongARM RiscPC from my PC with it's old ISA
network card.
What does smbclient need to work?
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Make sure it has enough memory to work in >500k is best.
You can help it a lot by giving it some hints as to who you want to
login as. the following environment variables can be set:
Set USER simon
Set LOGNAME simon
These do not need to be the same, in the above example I didn't set LOGNAME
which defaulted to the hostname of the machine I was connecting from.
The system variable Inet$HostName must be setup, it should be if your
connecting over a network.
Set PAGER more
can be used to display a file, note that more is the default program it
will try to run.
What if it goes wrong? Who can I contact?
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Tell me about bugs and faults within smbclient. I might do something
about them. I ported this program because I was bored one night and
got so far that I spent the next 2 evenings finishing off the port.
contact me if you want the source code.
bug reports and text dumps of sessions should be sent to me via email as
should requests for my current address, I've just moved (Sept 97).
mailto:simon@bigblue.demon.co.uk
This port of smbclient has only been lightly tested.
login and password checking looks ok as does get and put for disks
and put for printers. sending popup messages also works.
This program was tested on a unix server running samba and several
Win95 machines.
Simon Truss
September 1997
http://java.cms.livjm.ac.uk/digital-d/voodoo.html