The commands listed below are some that we use often, but many more exist. Check the man pages and documentation for more details and information.
smbstatus. The smbstatus utility is a very simple program to list the current Samba connections. To report current Samba connections, use the following command:
[root@deep ] /# smbstatus
Samba version 2.0.7
Service uid gid pid machine
----------------------------------------------
tmp webmaster webmaster 3995 gate (192.168.1.3) Sat Sep 25 19:40:54 1999
No locked files
Share mode memory usage (bytes):
1048464(99%) free + 56(0%) used + 56(0%) overhead = 1048576(100%) total
The commands listed below are some that we use often, but many more exist. Check the man pages and documentation for more details and information.
smbclient. The smbclient program utility for Samba works much like the interface of the FTP program. This small program allow you to get files from the server to the local machine, put files from the local machine to the server, retrieve directory information from the server, and so on.
To connect to a Windows machine with smbclient utility, use the following command:
[root@deep ] /# smbclient //sbmserver/sharename -U smbclient
[root@deep ] /# smbclient //gate/tmp -U smbclient
Password:
Domain=[OPENNA] OS=[Windows NT 4.0] Server=[NT LAN Manager 4.0]
smb: \> ls
. D 0 Tue Mar 14 15:31:50 2000
.. D 0 Tue Mar 14 15:31:50 2000
PostgreSQL D 0 Tue Mar 14 15:32:22 2000
Squid D 0 Tue Mar 14 15:32:28 2000
E_comm D 0 Tue Mar 14 15:32:42 2000
StackGuard.pdf A 61440 Tue Dec 21 20:41:34 1999
installation-without-XFree86 A 448 Tue Dec 21 20:41:28 1999
lcap-0_0_3-2_src.rpm A 13481 Thu Jan 13 01:50:12 2000
mirc561t.exe A 948224 Tue Dec 21 20:41:54 1999
65510 blocks of size 32768. 5295 blocks available
smb: \>
Where //sbmserver is the name of the server you want to connect to. /sharename is the directory on this server you want to connect to, and smbclient is
your username on this machine.