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| Enter User's password: **** | Enter User's password: **** | ||
| </code> | </code> | ||
| - | This will provide a list of the shares available on the machine called nas. Although not strictly required, it is recommended to add the server name to /etc/hosts for name resolution when it has a fixed ip address. Because we are running on Linux we need to 'escape' the backslashes in the UNC path, effectively needing twice the number of them like this: | + | This will provide a list of the shares available on \\nas. The result should look similar to the example below: |
| + | <code> | ||
| + | Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.3-31a.osstech] | ||
| + | |||
| + | Sharename Type Comment | ||
| + | --------- ---- ------- | ||
| + | IPC$ IPC IPC Service ("My NAS") | ||
| + | webaxs Disk | ||
| + | share Disk LinkStation folder | ||
| + | info Disk LinkStation Utilities | ||
| + | Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.3-31a.osstech] | ||
| + | |||
| + | Server Comment | ||
| + | --------- ------- | ||
| + | NAS My NAS | ||
| + | |||
| + | Workgroup Master | ||
| + | --------- ------- | ||
| + | WORKGROUP NAS | ||
| + | # | ||
| + | </code> | ||
| + | From the above example, we are interested in access to Sharename 'share'. Although not strictly required, it is recommended to add the server name to /etc/hosts for name resolution when it has a fixed ip address. Because we are running on Linux we need to 'escape' the backslashes in the UNC path, effectively needing twice the number of them. Accessing \share on \\nas goes like this: | ||
| <code> | <code> | ||
| # smbclient \\\\nas\\share | # smbclient \\\\nas\\share | ||
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| smb: \> | smb: \> | ||
| </code> | </code> | ||
| - | At this prompt you can issue ftp-style commands to browse the file system and read/write files. | + | At the prompt you can issue ftp-style commands to browse the file system and read/write files. Typing **help** gives you a summary of the options: |
| + | <code> | ||
| + | smb: \> help | ||
| + | ? allinfo altname archive blocksize | ||
| + | cancel case_sensitive cd chmod chown | ||
| + | close del dir du echo | ||
| + | exit get getfacl hardlink help | ||
| + | history iosize lcd link lock | ||
| + | lowercase ls l mask md | ||
| + | mget mkdir more mput newer | ||
| + | open posix posix_encrypt posix_open posix_mkdir | ||
| + | posix_rmdir posix_unlink print prompt put | ||
| + | pwd q queue quit readlink | ||
| + | rd recurse reget rename reput | ||
| + | rm rmdir showacls setmode stat | ||
| + | symlink tar tarmode translate unlock | ||
| + | volume vuid wdel logon listconnect | ||
| + | showconnect .. ! | ||
| + | smb: \> | ||
| + | </code> | ||
| Fortunately you can also access a Windows share by mounting it on your box like this: | Fortunately you can also access a Windows share by mounting it on your box like this: | ||