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Exchanging Files with Windows Hosts Using smbclient

You can browse and exchange files with Windows hosts from the Linux command line relatively easily, provided you are somewhat familiar with the process of copying files from computer to computer on Windows networks and the use of the ftp command on Linux or Unix networks.

The command used for exchanging files with Windows hosts is called smbclient. Although smbclient isn't hard to use, you at least need to know the name of the Windows host with which you want to exchange files. If you don't know the name of the Windows host with which you want to communicate, ask your network administrator or consult the Network Neighborhood or My Network Places icons on a Windows desktop computer on your network. ...