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Red Hat Linux 6: Visual QuickPro Guide
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Red Hat Linux 6: Visual QuickPro Guide

by Harold Davis
August 1999
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
8h 58m
English
Peachpit Press
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Using SMB Client

The SMB Client program—smbclient—is used to connect your Linux machine to networked SMB servers: for example, those running Windows NT.

Smbclient is a command-line program with many options.

To display smbclient syntax:

1.
Open a terminal window.
2.
At the command prompt, type /usr/bin/smbclient | more The possible commands and flags will be piped to more and displayed one screen at a time (Figure 13.35).
Figure 13.35. Smbclient runs at the command line with many options.

To establish a typical connection:

  • At the command prompt, type smbclient \\theserver\tmp psswd where passwd is the password for the current user, and tmp ...
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