smbsh — Allows access to remote SMB shares + using UNIX commands
smbsh [-W workgroup] [-U username] [-P prefix] [-R <name resolve order>] [-d <debug level>] [-l logdir] [-L libdir]
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.
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.
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. +
This option allows + the user to set the directory prefix for SMB access. The + default value if this option is not specified is + smb. +
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.
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.
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.
This parameter specifies the location of the
+ shared libraries used by smbsh. The default
+ value is specified at compile time.
+
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.
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.
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.