Using Samba, Second Edition

Name

smbsh

Synopsis

The smbsh program allows SMB shares to be accessed from a Unix system. When smbsh is run, an extra directory tree called /smb becomes available to dynamically linked shell commands. The first level of directories under /smb represent available workgroups, the next level of subdirectories represent the SMB servers in each workgroup, and the third level of subdirectories represent the disk and printer shares of each server.

Samba must be compiled with the --with-smbwrappers option to enable smbsh.

Options

-d debug_level

Sets the debug (sometimes called logging) level. The level can range from 0, the default, to 10. Debug level 0 logs only the most important messages; level 1 is normal; levels 3 and above are primarily for debugging and slow smbsh considerably.

-l filename

Sets the name of the logging file. By default, messages are sent to stderr.

-L directory

Specifies the location of smbsh’s shared libraries, overriding the compiled-in default.

-P prefix

Sets the name of the root directory to use for the SMB filesystem. The default is /smb.

-R resolve_order

Sets the resolve order of the name servers. This option is similar to the resolve order configuration option and can take any of the four parameters lmhosts, host, wins, and bcast, in any order. If more than one is specified, the argument is specified as a space-separated list.

-U username

Provides the username, and optionally the password, for authenticating the connection to the SMB server. The password can be ...