smbclient

Name

smbclient — ftp-like client to access SMB/CIFS resources - on servers

Synopsis

smbclient [-b <buffer size>] [-d debuglevel] [-e] [-L <netbios name>] [-U username] [-I destinationIP] [-M <netbios name>] [-m maxprotocol] [-A authfile] [-N] [-g] [-i scope] [-O <socket options>] [-p port] [-R <name resolve order>] [-s <smb config file>] [-k] [-P] [-c <command>]

smbclient {servicename} [password] [-b <buffer size>] [-d debuglevel] [-e] [-D Directory] [-U username] [-W workgroup] [-M <netbios name>] [-m maxprotocol] [-A authfile] [-N] [-g] [-l log-basename] [-I destinationIP] [-E] [-c <command string>] [-i scope] [-O <socket options>] [-p port] [-R <name resolve order>] [-s <smb config file>] [-T<c|x>IXFqgbNan] [-k]

DESCRIPTION

This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

smbclient is a client that can + on servers

Synopsis

smbclient [-b <buffer size>] [-d debuglevel] [-e] [-L <netbios name>] [-U username] [-I destinationIP] [-M <netbios name>] [-m maxprotocol] [-A authfile] [-N] [-C] [-g] [-i scope] [-O <socket options>] [-p port] [-R <name resolve order>] [-s <smb config file>] [-k] [-P] [-c <command>]

smbclient {servicename} [password] [-b <buffer size>] [-d debuglevel] [-e] [-D Directory] [-U username] [-W workgroup] [-M <netbios name>] [-m maxprotocol] [-A authfile] [-N] [-C] [-g] [-l log-basename] [-I destinationIP] [-E] [-c <command string>] [-i scope] [-O <socket options>] [-p port] [-R <name resolve order>] [-s <smb config file>] [-T<c|x>IXFqgbNan] [-k]

DESCRIPTION

This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

smbclient is a client that can 'talk' to an SMB/CIFS server. It offers an interface similar to that of the ftp program (see ftp(1)). Operations include things like getting files from the server to the local machine, putting files from the local machine to the server, retrieving directory information from the server - and so on.

OPTIONS

servicename: servicename is the name of the service + and so on.

OPTIONS

servicename

servicename is the name of the service you want to use on the server. A service name takes the form //server/service where server is the NetBIOS name of the SMB/CIFS server @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Workgroups) insist on an uppercase password. Lowercase or mixed case passwords may be rejected by these servers.

Be cautious about including passwords in scripts. -

-R <name resolve order>

This option is used by the programs in the Samba +

-R|--name-resolve <name resolve order>

This option is used by the programs in the Samba suite 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 @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ (name resolve order) will be used.

The default order is lmhosts, host, wins, bcast and without this parameter or any entry in the name resolve order parameter of the smb.conf(5) file the name resolution - methods will be attempted in this order.

-M NetBIOS name

This options allows you to send messages, using + methods will be attempted in this order.

-M|--message NetBIOS name

This options allows you to send messages, using the "WinPopup" protocol, to another computer. Once a connection is established you then type your message, pressing ^D (control-D) to end.

If the receiving computer is running WinPopup the user will @@ -82,16 +82,17 @@ control the FROM and TO parts of the message.

See the message command parameter in the smb.conf(5) for a description of how to handle incoming WinPopup messages in Samba.

Note: Copy WinPopup into the startup group on your WfWg PCs if you want them to always be able to receive - messages.

-p port

This number is the TCP port number that will be used + messages.

-p|--port port

This number is the TCP port number that will be used when making connections to the server. The standard (well-known) TCP port number for an SMB/CIFS server is 139, which is the - default.

-g

This parameter provides combined with + default.

-g|--grepable

This parameter provides combined with -L easy parseable output that allows processing with utilities such as grep and cut. +

-m|--max-protocol protocol

This parameter sets the maximum protocol version announced by the client.

-P

Make queries to the external server using the machine account of the local server.

-h|--help

Print a summary of command line options. -

-I IP-address

IP address is the address of the server to connect to. +

-I|--ip-address IP-address

IP address is the address of the server to connect to. It should be specified in standard "a.b.c.d" notation.

Normally the client would attempt to locate a named SMB/CIFS server by looking it up via the NetBIOS name resolution mechanism described above in the name resolve order @@ -100,24 +101,15 @@ address and the NetBIOS name component of the resource being connected to will be ignored.

There is no default for this parameter. If not supplied, it will be determined automatically by the client as described - above.

-E

This parameter causes the client to write messages + above.

-E|--stderr

This parameter causes the client to write messages to the standard error stream (stderr) rather than to the standard output stream.

By default, the client writes messages to standard output - - typically the user's tty.

-L

This option allows you to look at what services + - typically the user's tty.

-L|--list

This option allows you to look at what services are available on a server. You use it as smbclient -L host and a list should appear. The -I option may be useful if your NetBIOS names don't match your TCP/IP DNS host names or if you are trying to reach a - host on another network.

-t terminal code

This option tells smbclient how to interpret - filenames coming from the remote server. Usually Asian language - multibyte UNIX implementations use different character sets than - SMB/CIFS servers (EUC instead of - SJIS for example). Setting this parameter will let - smbclient convert between the UNIX filenames and - the SMB filenames correctly. This option has not been seriously tested - and may have some problems.

The terminal codes include CWsjis, CWeuc, CWjis7, CWjis8, - CWjunet, CWhex, CWcap. This is not a complete list, check the Samba - source code for the complete list.

-b buffersize

This option changes the transmit/send buffer + host on another network.

-b|--send-buffer buffersize

This option changes the transmit/send buffer size when getting or putting a file from/to the server. The default is 65520 bytes. Setting this value smaller (to 1200 bytes) has been observed to speed up file transfers to and from a Win9x server. @@ -203,7 +195,7 @@ NetBIOS name, it causes the client to log on using the servers local SAM (as opposed to the Domain SAM).

-O|--socket-options socket options

TCP socket options to set on the client socket. See the socket options parameter in the smb.conf manual page for the list of valid -options.

-T tar options

smbclient may be used to create tar(1) +options.

-T|--tar tar options

smbclient may be used to create tar(1) compatible backups of all the files on an SMB/CIFS share. The secondary tar flags that can be given to this option are :

c - Create a tar file on UNIX. @@ -268,11 +260,11 @@ options.

-T tar options

smbcli users\edocs

Create a tar file of the files listed in the file tarlist.

smbclient //mypc/myshare "" -N -TcF backup.tar tarlist

Create a tar file of all the files and directories in the share.

smbclient //mypc/myshare "" -N -Tc backup.tar * -

-D initial directory

Change to initial directory before starting. Probably - only of any use with the tar -T option.

-c command string

command string is a semicolon-separated list of +

-D|--directory initial directory

Change to initial directory before starting. Probably + only of any use with the tar -T option.

-c|--comand command string

command string is a semicolon-separated list of commands to be executed instead of prompting from stdin. -N is implied by -c.

This is particularly useful in scripts and for printing stdin - to the server, e.g. -c 'print -'.

OPERATIONS

Once the client is running, the user is presented with + to the server, e.g. -c 'print -'.

OPERATIONS

Once the client is running, the user is presented with a prompt :

smb:\>

The backslash ("\\") indicates the current working directory on the server, and will change if the current working directory is changed.

The prompt indicates that the client is ready and waiting to @@ -424,7 +416,10 @@ options.

-T tar options

smbcli name the remote copy remote file name. Note that all transfers in smbclient are binary. See also the lowercase command.

queue

Displays the print queue, showing the job id, - name, size and current status.

quit

See the exit command.

rd <directory name>

See the rmdir command.

recurse

Toggle directory recursion for the commands mget + name, size and current status.

quit

See the exit command.

readlink symlinkname

This command depends on the server supporting the CIFS + UNIX extensions and will fail if the server does not. Print + the value of the symlink "symlinkname". +

rd <directory name>

See the rmdir command.

recurse

Toggle directory recursion for the commands mget and mput.

When toggled ON, these commands will process all directories in the source directory (i.e., the directory they are copying from ) and will recurse into any that match the mask specified @@ -470,14 +465,14 @@ options.

-T tar options

smbcli

vuid <number>

Changes the currently used vuid in the protocol to the given arbitrary number. Without an argument prints out the current vuid being used. Used for internal Samba testing purposes. -

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