smbsh

Name

smbsh — Allows access to remote SMB shares + using UNIX commands

Synopsis

smbsh [-W workgroup] [-U username] [-P prefix] [-R <name resolve order>] [-d <debug level>] [-l logdir] [-L libdir]

DESCRIPTION

This tool is part of the samba(7) 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(5) 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. +

-s <configuration file>

The file specified contains the +configuration details required by the server. The +information in this file includes server-specific +information such as what printcap file to use, as well +as descriptions of all the services that the server is +to provide. See smb.conf for more information. +The default configuration file name is determined at +compile time.

-d|--debuglevel=level

level is an integer +from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is +not specified is 0.

The higher this value, the more detail will be +logged to the log files about the activities of the +server. At level 0, only critical errors and serious +warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for +day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of +information about operations carried out.

Levels above 1 will generate considerable +amounts of log data, and should only be used when +investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are designed for +use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log +data, most of which is extremely cryptic.

Note that specifying this parameter here will +override the log level parameter +in the smb.conf file.

-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 :

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. +
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 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. +
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. +
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.

-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
+

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 3 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.

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/) and updated for the Samba 2.0 + release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for + Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter. The conversion to DocBook XML 4.2 + for Samba 3.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy.