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NAME
smbsh - Allows access to Windows NT filesystem 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 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 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 access. The default value if this option is not
specified is smb.
-R <name resolve order>
This option is used to determine what naming services
and in what order 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 :
o 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.
o host : Do a standard host name to IP address
resolution, using the system /etc/hosts, NIS, or DNS
lookups. This method of name resolution is operating
system dependent, for instance on IRIX or Solaris
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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.
o 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.
o bcast : Do a broadcast on each of the known local
interfaces listed in the interfaces parameter. This
is the least reliable of the name resolution 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 parameter or any entry in the name resolve order
parameter of the smb.conf file, the name resolution methods
will be attempted in this order.
-d <debug level>
debug level 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
about the activities of nmblookup. At level 0, only
critical errors and serious warnings will be logged.
-l logfilename
If specified causes all debug messages to be written to
the file specified by logfilename . If not specified
then all messages will be written tostderr.
-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
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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 command ls /smb/MYGROUP will show all the machines in
the workgroup MYGROUP. The command ls
/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 2.2 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 functionality. 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 project 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/
<URL: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
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