&author.jht; May 9, 2005 The net command is one of the new features of Samba-3 and is an attempt to provide a useful tool into which the majority of remote management operations necessary for common tasks. The net tool is flexible by design and is intended for command line use as well as for scripted control application. Originally introduced with the intent to mimick the Microsoft Windows command that has the same name, the net command has morphed into a very powerful instrument that has become an essential part of the Samba network administrator's toolbox. The Samba Team have introduced tools, such as smbgroupedit, rpcclient from which really useful have been integrated into the net. The smbgroupedit command was absorbed entirely into the net, while only some features of the rpcclient command have been ported to it. Anyone who finds older references to these utilities and to the functionality they provided should look at the net command before searching elsewhere.