November 2007
Beginner
642 pages
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English
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11.11. Connecting Linux Clients to a Samba Domain with Command-Line Programs
Problem
Your shiny new Samba domain controller is in service and ready to rock. Your Windows clients are successfully logging in and finding shares just like they're supposed to. How do your Linux PCs join the party using command-line utilities?
Solution
These command-line tools are for browsing, logging in, and mounting Samba shares:
- smbtree
Browses the network and displays all domains, servers, and shares in a tree structure. It is part of the Samba suite.
- smbclient
Network browser and file manager. smbclient displays domains, servers, and shares, and uses FTP-type commands to transfer files. You don't need to mount the shares to get access to the files. Also part of the Samba suite.
- smbmount/smbumount
These commands are for mounting and unmounting Samba shares. Part of the smbfs package.
Discussion
Linux does not see domains the same way that Windows does, which is no surprise because the domain structure is a Windows convention. Linux sees filesystems that it has either permission to access or no permission to access. Unlike Windows, which can either log in to a domain or log in locally, but not both, Linux users log in first to their local systems in the normal fashion, then log in to domain shares as needed. Domain shares can be configured to auto-mount in /etc/fstab, just like any other filesystem.
To browse the network and see all the domains, servers, and
shares with smbtree, run it with the -N (no password) ...
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