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SMBSH(1)
NAME
smbsh - Allows access to remote SMB shares using UNIX commands
SYNOPSIS
smbsh [-W workgroup] [-U username] [-P prefix] [-R <name resolve order>]
[-d <debug level>] [-l logfile] [-L libdir]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the Samba(7) suite.
smbsh allows you to access an NT filesystem using UNIX commands such as ls,
egrep, and rcp. You must use a shell that is dynamically linked in order
for smbsh to work correctly.
OPTIONS
-W WORKGROUP
Override the default workgroup specified in the workgroup parameter of
the smb.conf(5) file for this session. This may be needed to connect
to some servers.
-U username[%pass]
Sets the SMB username or username and password. If this option is not
specified, the user will be prompted for both the username and the
password. If %pass is not specified, the user will be prompted for the
password.
-P prefix
This option allows the user to set the directory prefix for SMB ac-
cess. The default value if this option is not specified is smb.
-s <configuration file>
The file specified contains the configuration details required by the
server. The information in this file includes server-specific informa-
tion 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 in-
formation. The default configuration file name is determined at com-
pile time.
-d|--debug=debuglevel
debuglevel is an integer from 0 to 10. The default value if this
parameter is not specified is zero.
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.
-R <name resolve order>
This option is used to determine what naming services and in what ord-
er 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 :
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(5) for details) then any name type matches for lookup.
host: Do a standard host name to IP address resolution, using the sys-
tem /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.
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.
bcast: Do a broadcast on each of the known local interfaces listed in
the interfaces parameter. This is the least reliable of the name reso-
lution methods 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 file parameter (name resolve order) will be used.
The default order is lmhosts, host, wins, bcast. Without this parame-
ter or any entry in the name resolve order parameter of the smb.conf
file, the name resolution methods will be attempted in this order.
-L libdir
This parameter specifies the location of the shared libraries used by
smbsh. The default value is specified at compile time.
EXAMPLES
To use the smbsh command, execute smbsh from the prompt and enter the
username and password that authenticates you to the machine running the
Windows NT operating system.
system% smbsh
Username: user
Password: XXXXXXX
Any dynamically linked command you execute from this shell will access the
/smb directory using the smb protocol. For example, the command ls /smb
will show a list of workgroups. The commandls /smb/MYGROUP will show all
the machines in the workgroup MYGROUP. The commandls
/smb/MYGROUP/<machine-name> will show the share names for that machine. You
could then, for example, use the cd command to change directories, vi to
edit files, and rcp to copy files.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.
BUGS
smbsh works by intercepting the standard libc calls with the dynamically
loaded versions in smbwrapper.o. Not all calls have been "wrapped", so
some programs may not function correctly under smbsh .
Programs which are not dynamically linked cannot make use of smbsh's func-
tionality. Most versions of UNIX have a file command that will describe how
a program was linked.
SEE ALSO
smbd(8), smb.conf(5)
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 pro-
ject 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.
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