User Commands SMBCLIENT(1)
NAME
smbclient - ftp-like client to access SMB/CIFS resources on
servers
SYNOPSIS
smbclient [-b ] [-d debuglevel] [-e]
[-L ] [-U username] [-I destinationIP]
[-M ] [-m maxprotocol] [-A authfile] [-N]
[-g] [-i scope] [-O ] [-p port]
[-R ] [-s ] [-k] [-P]
[-c ]
smbclient {servicename} [password] [-b ]
[-d debuglevel] [-e] [-D Directory] [-U username]
[-W workgroup] [-M ] [-m maxprotocol]
[-A authfile] [-N] [-g] [-l log-basename]
[-I destinationIP] [-E] [-c ] [-i scope]
[-O ] [-p port] [-R ]
[-s ] [-TIXFqgbNan] [-k]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.
smbclient is a client that can 'talk' to an SMB/CIFS server.
It offers an interface similar to that of the ftp program
(see ftp(1)). Operations include things like getting files
from the server to the local machine, putting files from the
local machine to the server, retrieving directory
information from the server and so on.
OPTIONS
servicename
servicename is the name of the service you want to use
on the server. A service name takes the form
/server/service where server is the NetBIOS name of the
SMB/CIFS server offering the desired service and service
is the name of the service offered. Thus to connect to
the service "printer" on the SMB/CIFS server
"smbserver", you would use the servicename
/smbserver/printer
Note that the server name required is NOT necessarily
the IP (DNS) host name of the server ! The name required
is a NetBIOS server name, which may or may not be the
same as the IP hostname of the machine running the
server.
The server name is looked up according to either the -R
parameter to smbclient or using the name resolve order
parameter in the smb.conf(4) file, allowing an
administrator to change the order and methods by which
server names are looked up.
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password
The password required to access the specified service on
the specified server. If this parameter is supplied, the
-N option (suppress password prompt) is assumed.
There is no default password. If no password is supplied
on the command line (either by using this parameter or
adding a password to the -U option (see below)) and the
-N option is not specified, the client will prompt for a
password, even if the desired service does not require
one. (If no password is required, simply press ENTER to
provide a null password.)
Note: Some servers (including OS/2 and Windows for
Workgroups) insist on an uppercase password. Lowercase
or mixed case passwords may be rejected by these
servers.
Be cautious about including passwords in scripts.
-R
This option is used by the programs in the Samba suite
to determine what naming services and in what order to
resolve host names to IP addresses. The option takes a
space-separated string of different name resolution
options.
The options are :"lmhosts", "host", "wins" and "bcast".
They cause names to be resolved as follows:
]o lmhosts: Lookup an IP address in the Samba lmhosts
file. If the line in lmhosts has no name type
attached to the NetBIOS name (see the lmhosts(4) for
details) then any name type matches for lookup.
]o host: Do a standard host name to IP address
resolution, using the system /etc/hosts , NIS, or
DNS lookups. This method of name resolution is
operating system dependent, for instance on IRIX or
Solaris this may be controlled by the
/etc/nsswitch.conf file). Note that this method is
only used if the NetBIOS name type being queried is
the 0x20 (server) name type, otherwise it is
ignored.
]o wins: Query a name with the IP address listed in the
wins server parameter. If no WINS server has been
specified this method will be ignored.
]o bcast: Do a broadcast on each of the known local
interfaces listed in the interfaces parameter. This
is the least reliable of the name resolution methods
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as it depends on the target host being on a locally
connected subnet.
If this parameter is not set then the name resolve order
defined in the smb.conf(4) file parameter (name resolve
order) will be used.
The default order is lmhosts, host, wins, bcast and
without this parameter or any entry in the name resolve
order parameter of the smb.conf(4) file the name
resolution methods will be attempted in this order.
-M NetBIOS name
This options allows you to send messages, using the
"WinPopup" protocol, to another computer. Once a
connection is established you then type your message,
pressing ^D (control-D) to end.
If the receiving computer is running WinPopup the user
will receive the message and probably a beep. If they
are not running WinPopup the message will be lost, and
no error message will occur.
The message is also automatically truncated if the
message is over 1600 bytes, as this is the limit of the
protocol.
One useful trick is to pipe the message through
smbclient. For example: smbclient -M FRED <
mymessage.txt will send the message in the file
mymessage.txt to the machine FRED.
You may also find the -U and -I options useful, as they
allow you to control the FROM and TO parts of the
message.
See the message command parameter in the smb.conf(4) for
a description of how to handle incoming WinPopup
messages in Samba.
Note: Copy WinPopup into the startup group on your WfWg
PCs if you want them to always be able to receive
messages.
-p port
This number is the TCP port number that will be used
when making connections to the server. The standard
(well-known) TCP port number for an SMB/CIFS server is
139, which is the default.
-g
This parameter provides combined with -L easy parseable
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output that allows processing with utilities such as
grep and cut.
-P
Make queries to the external server using the machine
account of the local server.
-h--help
Print a summary of command line options.
-I IP-address
IP address is the address of the server to connect to.
It should be specified in standard "a.b.c.d" notation.
Normally the client would attempt to locate a named
SMB/CIFS server by looking it up via the NetBIOS name
resolution mechanism described above in the name resolve
order parameter above. Using this parameter will force
the client to assume that the server is on the machine
with the specified IP address and the NetBIOS name
component of the resource being connected to will be
ignored.
There is no default for this parameter. If not supplied,
it will be determined automatically by the client as
described above.
-E
This parameter causes the client to write messages to
the standard error stream (stderr) rather than to the
standard output stream.
By default, the client writes messages to standard
output - typically the user's tty.
-L
This option allows you to look at what services are
available on a server. You use it as smbclient -L host
and a list should appear. The -I option may be useful if
your NetBIOS names don't match your TCP/IP DNS host
names or if you are trying to reach a host on another
network.
-t terminal code
This option tells smbclient how to interpret filenames
coming from the remote server. Usually Asian language
multibyte UNIX implementations use different character
sets than SMB/CIFS servers (EUC instead of
SJIS for example). Setting this parameter will let
smbclient convert between the UNIX filenames and the SMB
filenames correctly. This option has not been seriously
tested and may have some problems.
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The terminal codes include CWsjis, CWeuc, CWjis7,
CWjis8, CWjunet, CWhex, CWcap. This is not a complete
list, check the Samba source code for the complete list.
-b buffersize
This option changes the transmit/send buffer size when
getting or putting a file from/to the server. The
default is 65520 bytes. Setting this value smaller (to
1200 bytes) has been observed to speed up file transfers
to and from a Win9x server.
-e
This command line parameter requires the remote server
support the UNIX extensions. Request that the connection
be encrypted. This is new for Samba 3.2 and will only
work with Samba 3.2 or above servers. Negotiates SMB
encryption using GSAPI. Uses the given credentials for
the encryption negotiaion (either kerberos or NTLMv1/v2
if given domain/username/password triple. Fails the
connection if encryption cannot be negotiated.
-d--debuglevel=level
level is an integer from 0 to 10. The default value if
this parameter is not specified is 1.
The higher this value, the more detail will be logged to
the log files about the activities of the server. At
level 0, only critical errors and serious warnings will
be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for day-to-day
running - it generates a small amount of information
about operations carried out.
Levels above 1 will generate considerable amounts of log
data, and should only be used when investigating a
problem. Levels above 3 are designed for use only by
developers and generate HUGE amounts of log data, most
of which is extremely cryptic.
Note that specifying this parameter here will override
the log level parameter in the smb.conf file.
-V
Prints the program version number.
-s
The file specified contains the configuration details
required by the server. The information in this file
includes server-specific information such as what
printcap file to use, as well as descriptions of all the
services that the server is to provide. See smb.conf for
more information. The default configuration file name is
determined at compile time.
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-l--log-basename=logdirectory
Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension
".progname" will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient,
log.smbd, etc...). The log file is never removed by the
client.
-N
If specified, this parameter suppresses the normal
password prompt from the client to the user. This is
useful when accessing a service that does not require a
password.
Unless a password is specified on the command line or
this parameter is specified, the client will request a
password.
If a password is specified on the command line and this
option is also defined the password on the command line
will be silently ingnored and no password will be used.
-k
Try to authenticate with kerberos. Only useful in an
Active Directory environment.
-A--authentication-file=filename
This option allows you to specify a file from which to
read the username and password used in the connection.
The format of the file is
username =
password =
domain =
Make certain that the permissions on the file restrict
access from unwanted users.
-U--user=username[%password]
Sets the SMB username or username and password.
If %password is not specified, the user will be
prompted. The client will first check the USER
environment variable, then the LOGNAME variable and if
either exists, the string is uppercased. If these
environmental variables are not found, the username
GUEST is used.
A third option is to use a credentials file which
contains the plaintext of the username and password.
This option is mainly provided for scripts where the
admin does not wish to pass the credentials on the
command line or via environment variables. If this
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method is used, make certain that the permissions on the
file restrict access from unwanted users. See the -A for
more details.
Be cautious about including passwords in scripts. Also,
on many systems the command line of a running process
may be seen via the ps command. To be safe always allow
rpcclient to prompt for a password and type it in
directly.
-n
This option allows you to override the NetBIOS name that
Samba uses for itself. This is identical to setting the
netbios name parameter in the smb.conf file. However, a
command line setting will take precedence over settings
in smb.conf.
-i
This specifies a NetBIOS scope that nmblookup will use
to communicate with when generating NetBIOS names. For
details on the use of NetBIOS scopes, see rfc1001.txt
and rfc1002.txt. NetBIOS scopes are very rarely used,
only set this parameter if you are the system
administrator in charge of all the NetBIOS systems you
communicate with.
-W--workgroup=domain
Set the SMB domain of the username. This overrides the
default domain which is the domain defined in smb.conf.
If the domain specified is the same as the servers
NetBIOS name, it causes the client to log on using the
servers local SAM (as opposed to the Domain SAM).
-O socket options
TCP socket options to set on the client socket. See the
socket options parameter in the smb.conf manual page for
the list of valid options.
-T tar options
smbclient may be used to create tar(1) compatible
backups of all the files on an SMB/CIFS share. The
secondary tar flags that can be given to this option are
:
]o c - Create a tar file on UNIX. Must be followed by
the name of a tar file, tape device or "-" for
standard output. If using standard output you must
turn the log level to its lowest value -d0 to avoid
corrupting your tar file. This flag is mutually
exclusive with the x flag.
]o x - Extract (restore) a local tar file back to a
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share. Unless the -D option is given, the tar files
will be restored from the top level of the share.
Must be followed by the name of the tar file, device
or "-" for standard input. Mutually exclusive with
the c flag. Restored files have their creation times
(mtime) set to the date saved in the tar file.
Directories currently do not get their creation
dates restored properly.
]o I - Include files and directories. Is the default
behavior when filenames are specified above. Causes
files to be included in an extract or create (and
therefore everything else to be excluded). See
example below. Filename globbing works in one of two
ways. See r below.
]o X - Exclude files and directories. Causes files to
be excluded from an extract or create. See example
below. Filename globbing works in one of two ways
now. See r below.
]o F - File containing a list of files and directories.
The F causes the name following the tarfile to
create to be read as a filename that contains a list
of files and directories to be included in an
extract or create (and therefore everything else to
be excluded). See example below. Filename globbing
works in one of two ways. See r below.
]o b - Blocksize. Must be followed by a valid (greater
than zero) blocksize. Causes tar file to be written
out in blocksize*TBLOCK (usually 512 byte) blocks.
]o g - Incremental. Only back up files that have the
archive bit set. Useful only with the c flag.
]o q - Quiet. Keeps tar from printing diagnostics as it
works. This is the same as tarmode quiet.
]o r - Regular expression include or exclude. Uses
regular expression matching for excluding or
excluding files if compiled with HAVEREGEXH.
However this mode can be very slow. If not compiled
with HAVEREGEXH, does a limited wildcard match on
'*' and '?'.
]o N - Newer than. Must be followed by the name of a
file whose date is compared against files found on
the share during a create. Only files newer than the
file specified are backed up to the tar file. Useful
only with the c flag.
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]o a - Set archive bit. Causes the archive bit to be
reset when a file is backed up. Useful with the g
and c flags.
Tar Long File Names
smbclient's tar option now supports long file names both
on backup and restore. However, the full path name of
the file must be less than 1024 bytes. Also, when a tar
archive is created, smbclient's tar option places all
files in the archive with relative names, not absolute
names.
Tar Filenames
All file names can be given as DOS path names (with '\\'
as the component separator) or as UNIX path names (with
'/' as the component separator).
Examples
Restore from tar file backup.tar into myshare on mypc
(no password on share).
smbclient /mypc/yshare "" -N -Tx backup.tar
Restore everything except users/docs
smbclient /mypc/myshare "" -N -TXx backup.tar
users/docs
Create a tar file of the files beneath
users/docs.
smbclient /mypc/myshare "" -N -Tc backup.tar users/docs
Create the same tar file as above, but now use a DOS
path name.
smbclient /mypc/myshare "" -N -tc backup.tar
users\edocs
Create a tar file of the files listed in the file
tarlist.
smbclient /mypc/myshare "" -N -TcF backup.tar tarlist
Create a tar file of all the files and directories in
the share.
smbclient /mypc/myshare "" -N -Tc backup.tar *
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-D initial directory
Change to initial directory before starting. Probably
only of any use with the tar -T option.
-c command string
command string is a semicolon-separated list of commands
to be executed instead of prompting from stdin.
-N is implied by -c.
This is particularly useful in scripts and for printing
stdin to the server, e.g. -c 'print -'.
OPERATIONS
Once the client is running, the user is presented with a
prompt :
smb:\>
The backslash ("\\") indicates the current working directory
on the server, and will change if the current working
directory is changed.
The prompt indicates that the client is ready and waiting to
carry out a user command. Each command is a single word,
optionally followed by parameters specific to that command.
Command and parameters are space-delimited unless these
notes specifically state otherwise. All commands are
case-insensitive. Parameters to commands may or may not be
case sensitive, depending on the command.
You can specify file names which have spaces in them by
quoting the name with double quotes, for example "a long
file name".
Parameters shown in square brackets (e.g., "[parameter]")
are optional. If not given, the command will use suitable
defaults. Parameters shown in angle brackets (e.g.,
"") are required.
Note that all commands operating on the server are actually
performed by issuing a request to the server. Thus the
behavior may vary from server to server, depending on how
the server was implemented.
The commands available are given here in alphabetical order.
? [command]
If command is specified, the ? command will display a
brief informative message about the specified command.
If no command is specified, a list of available commands
will be displayed.
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! [shell command]
If shell command is specified, the ! command will
execute a shell locally and run the specified shell
command. If no command is specified, a local shell will
be run.
allinfo file
The client will request that the server return all known
information about a file or directory (including
streams).
altname file
The client will request that the server return the
"alternate" name (the 8.3 name) for a file or directory.
archive
Sets the archive level when operating on files. 0 means
ignore the archive bit, 1 means only operate on files
with this bit set, 2 means only operate on files with
this bit set and reset it after operation, 3 means
operate on all files and reset it after operation. The
default is 0.
blocksize
Sets the blocksize parameter for a tar operation. The
default is 20. Causes tar file to be written out in
blocksize*TBLOCK (normally 512 byte) units.
cancel jobid0 [jobid1] ... [jobidN]
The client will request that the server cancel the
printjobs identified by the given numeric print job ids.
casesensitive
Toggles the setting of the flag in SMB packets that
tells the server to treat filenames as case sensitive.
Set to OF by default (tells file server to treat
filenames as case insensitive). Only currently affects
Samba 3.0.5 and above file servers with the case
sensitive parameter set to auto in the smb.conf.
cd
If "directory name" is specified, the current working
directory on the server will be changed to the directory
specified. This operation will fail if for any reason
the specified directory is inaccessible.
If no directory name is specified, the current working
directory on the server will be reported.
chmod file mode in octal
This command depends on the server supporting the CIFS
UNIX extensions and will fail if the server does not.
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The client requests that the server change the UNIX
permissions to the given octal mode, in standard UNIX
format.
chown file uid gid
This command depends on the server supporting the CIFS
UNIX extensions and will fail if the server does not.
The client requests that the server change the UNIX user
and group ownership to the given decimal values. Note
there is currently no way to remotely look up the UNIX
uid and gid values for a given name. This may be
addressed in future versions of the CIFS UNIX
extensions.
close
Closes a file explicitly opened by the open command.
Used for internal Samba testing purposes.
del
The client will request that the server attempt to
delete all files matching mask from the current working
directory on the server.
dir
A list of the files matching mask in the current working
directory on the server will be retrieved from the
server and displayed.
du
Does a directory listing and then prints out the current
disk useage and free space on a share.
echo
Does an SMBecho request to ping the server. Used for
internal Samba testing purposes.
exit
Terminate the connection with the server and exit from
the program.
get [local file name]
Copy the file called remote file name from the server to
the machine running the client. If specified, name the
local copy local file name. Note that all transfers in
smbclient are binary. See also the lowercase command.
getfacl
Requires the server support the UNIX extensions.
Requests and prints the POSIX ACL on a file.
hardlink
Creates a hardlink on the server using Windows CIFS
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semantics.
help [command]
See the ? command above.
history
Displays the command history.
iosize
When sending or receiving files, smbclient uses an
internal memory buffer by default of size 64512 bytes.
This command allows this size to be set to any range
between 16384 (0x4000) bytes and 16776960 (0xF00)
bytes. Larger sizes may mean more efficient data
transfer as smbclient will try and use the most
efficient read and write calls for the connected server.
lcd [directory name]
If directory name is specified, the current working
directory on the local machine will be changed to the
directory specified. This operation will fail if for any
reason the specified directory is inaccessible.
If no directory name is specified, the name of the
current working directory on the local machine will be
reported.
link target linkname
This command depends on the server supporting the CIFS
UNIX extensions and will fail if the server does not.
The client requests that the server create a hard link
between the linkname and target files. The linkname file
must not exist.
listconnect
Show the current connections held for DFS purposes.
lock
This command depends on the server supporting the CIFS
UNIX extensions and will fail if the server does not.
Tries to set a POSIX fcntl lock of the given type on the
given range. Used for internal Samba testing purposes.
logon
Establishes a new vuid for this session by logging on
again. Replaces the current vuid. Prints out the new
vuid. Used for internal Samba testing purposes.
lowercase
Toggle lowercasing of filenames for the get and mget
commands.
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When lowercasing is toggled ON, local filenames are
converted to lowercase when using the get and mget
commands. This is often useful when copying (say) MSDOS
files from a server, because lowercase filenames are the
norm on UNIX systems.
ls
See the dir command above.
mask
This command allows the user to set up a mask which will
be used during recursive operation of the mget and mput
commands.
The masks specified to the mget and mput commands act as
filters for directories rather than files when recursion
is toggled ON.
The mask specified with the mask command is necessary to
filter files within those directories. For example, if
the mask specified in an mget command is "source*" and
the mask specified with the mask command is "*.c" and
recursion is toggled ON, the mget command will retrieve
all files matching "*.c" in all directories below and
including all directories matching "source*" in the
current working directory.
Note that the value for mask defaults to blank
(equivalent to "*") and remains so until the mask
command is used to change it. It retains the most
recently specified value indefinitely. To avoid
unexpected results it would be wise to change the value
of mask back to "*" after using the mget or mput
commands.
md
See the mkdir command.
mget
Copy all files matching mask from the server to the
machine running the client.
Note that mask is interpreted differently during
recursive operation and non-recursive operation - refer
to the recurse and mask commands for more information.
Note that all transfers in smbclient are binary. See
also the lowercase command.
mkdir
Create a new directory on the server (user access
privileges permitting) with the specified name.
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more
Fetch a remote file and view it with the contents of
your PAGER environment variable.
mput
Copy all files matching mask in the current working
directory on the local machine to the current working
directory on the server.
Note that mask is interpreted differently during
recursive operation and non-recursive operation - refer
to the recurse and mask commands for more information.
Note that all transfers in smbclient are binary.
posix
Query the remote server to see if it supports the CIFS
UNIX extensions and prints out the list of capabilities
supported. If so, turn on POSIX pathname processing and
large file read/writes (if available),.
posixencrypt
This command depends on the server supporting the CIFS
UNIX extensions and will fail if the server does not.
Attempt to negotiate SMB encryption on this connection.
If smbclient connected with kerberos credentials (-k)
the arguments to this command are ignored and the
kerberos credentials are used to negotiate GSAPI
signing and sealing instead. See also the -e option to
smbclient to force encryption on initial connection.
This command is new with Samba 3.2.
posixopen
This command depends on the server supporting the CIFS
UNIX extensions and will fail if the server does not.
Opens a remote file using the CIFS UNIX extensions and
prints a fileid. Used for internal Samba testing
purposes.
posixmkdir
This command depends on the server supporting the CIFS
UNIX extensions and will fail if the server does not.
Creates a remote directory using the CIFS UNIX
extensions with the given mode.
posixrmdir
This command depends on the server supporting the CIFS
UNIX extensions and will fail if the server does not.
Deletes a remote directory using the CIFS UNIX
extensions.
posixunlink
This command depends on the server supporting the CIFS
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UNIX extensions and will fail if the server does not.
Deletes a remote file using the CIFS UNIX extensions.
print
Print the specified file from the local machine through
a printable service on the server.
prompt
Toggle prompting for filenames during operation of the
mget and mput commands.
When toggled ON, the user will be prompted to confirm
the transfer of each file during these commands. When
toggled OF, all specified files will be transferred
without prompting.
put [remote file name]
Copy the file called local file name from the machine
running the client to the server. If specified, name the
remote copy remote file name. Note that all transfers in
smbclient are binary. See also the lowercase command.
queue
Displays the print queue, showing the job id, name, size
and current status.
quit
See the exit command.
rd
See the rmdir command.
recurse
Toggle directory recursion for the commands mget and
mput.
When toggled ON, these commands will process all
directories in the source directory (i.e., the directory
they are copying from ) and will recurse into any that
match the mask specified to the command. Only files that
match the mask specified using the mask command will be
retrieved. See also the mask command.
When recursion is toggled OF, only files from the
current working directory on the source machine that
match the mask specified to the mget or mput commands
will be copied, and any mask specified using the mask
command will be ignored.
rm
Remove all files matching mask from the current working
directory on the server.
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rmdir
Remove the specified directory (user access privileges
permitting) from the server.
setmode
A version of the DOS attrib command to set file
permissions. For example:
setmode myfile ]r
would make myfile read only.
showconnect
Show the currently active connection held for DFS
purposes.
stat file
This command depends on the server supporting the CIFS
UNIX extensions and will fail if the server does not.
The client requests the UNIX basic info level and prints
out the same info that the Linux stat command would
about the file. This includes the size, blocks used on
disk, file type, permissions, inode number, number of
links and finally the three timestamps (access, modify
and change). If the file is a special file (symlink,
character or block device, fifo or socket) then extra
information may also be printed.
symlink target linkname
This command depends on the server supporting the CIFS
UNIX extensions and will fail if the server does not.
The client requests that the server create a symbolic
hard link between the target and linkname files. The
linkname file must not exist. Note that the server will
not create a link to any path that lies outside the
currently connected share. This is enforced by the Samba
server.
tar [IXbgNa]
Performs a tar operation - see the -T command line
option above. Behavior may be affected by the tarmode
command (see below). Using g (incremental) and N (newer)
will affect tarmode settings. Note that using the "-"
option with tar x may not work - use the command line
option instead.
blocksize
Blocksize. Must be followed by a valid (greater than
zero) blocksize. Causes tar file to be written out in
blocksize*TBLOCK (usually 512 byte) blocks.
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tarmode
Changes tar's behavior with regard to archive bits. In
full mode, tar will back up everything regardless of the
archive bit setting (this is the default mode). In
incremental mode, tar will only back up files with the
archive bit set. In reset mode, tar will reset the
archive bit on all files it backs up (implies read/write
share).
unlock
This command depends on the server supporting the CIFS
UNIX extensions and will fail if the server does not.
Tries to unlock a POSIX fcntl lock on the given range.
Used for internal Samba testing purposes.
volume
Prints the current volume name of the share.
vuid
Changes the currently used vuid in the protocol to the
given arbitrary number. Without an argument prints out
the current vuid being used. Used for internal Samba
testing purposes.
NOTES
Some servers are fussy about the case of supplied usernames,
passwords, share names (AKA service names) and machine
names. If you fail to connect try giving all parameters in
uppercase.
It is often necessary to use the -n option when connecting
to some types of servers. For example OS/2 LanManager
insists on a valid NetBIOS name being used, so you need to
supply a valid name that would be known to the server.
smbclient supports long file names where the server supports
the LANMAN2 protocol or above.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The variable USER may contain the username of the person
using the client. This information is used only if the
protocol level is high enough to support session-level
passwords.
The variable PASWD may contain the password of the person
using the client. This information is used only if the
protocol level is high enough to support session-level
passwords.
The variable LIBSMBPROG may contain the path, executed with
system(), which the client should connect to instead of
connecting to a server. This functionality is primarily
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intended as a development aid, and works best when using a
LMHOSTS file
INSTALATION
The location of the client program is a matter for
individual system administrators. The following are thus
suggestions only.
It is recommended that the smbclient software be installed
in the /usr/local/samba/bin/ or
/usr/samba/bin/ directory, this directory readable by all,
writeable only by root. The client program itself should be
executable by all. The client should NOT be setuid or
setgid!
The client log files should be put in a directory readable
and writeable only by the user.
To test the client, you will need to know the name of a
running SMB/CIFS server. It is possible to run smbd(1M) as
an ordinary user - running that server as a daemon on a
user-accessible port (typically any port number over 1024)
would provide a suitable test server.
DIAGNOSTICS
Most diagnostics issued by the client are logged in a
specified log file. The log file name is specified at
compile time, but may be overridden on the command line.
The number and nature of diagnostics available depends on
the debug level used by the client. If you have problems,
set the debug level to 3 and peruse the log files.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 3.2 of the Samba suite.
AUTHOR
The original Samba software and related utilities were
created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the
Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the
Linux kernel is developed.
The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer. The
man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
ftp:/ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/) and updated for the Samba
2.0 release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to
DocBook XML 4.2 for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.
ATRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
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attributes:
ATRIBUTE TYPE ATRIBUTE VALUE
Availability SUNWsmbar, SUNWsmbau
Interface Stability External
NOTES
Source for Samba is available on http:/opensolaris.org.
Samba(7) delivers the set of four SMF(5) services as can be
seen from the following example:
$ svcs samba wins winbind swat
STATE STIME FMRI
disabled Apr21 svc:/network/samba:default
disabled Apr21 svc:/network/winbind:default
disabled Apr21 svc:/network/wins:default
disabled Apr21 svc:/network/swat:default
where the services are:
"samba"
runs the smbd daemon managing the CIFS sessions
"wins"
runs the nmbd daemon enabling the browsing (WINS)
"winbind"
runs the winbindd daemon making the domain idmap
"swat"
Samba Web Administration Tool is a service providing
access to browser-based Samba administration interface
and on-line documentation. The service runs on software
loopback network interface on port 901/tcp, i.e. opening
"http:/localhost:901/" in browser will access the SWAT
service on local machine.
Please note: SWAT uses HTP Basic Authentication scheme
where user name and passwords are sent over the network in
clear text. In the SWAT case the user name is root.
Transferring such sensitive data is advisable only on the
software loopback network interface or over secure networks.
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