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<refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class="manual">User Commands</refmiscinfo>
- <refmiscinfo class="version">3.2</refmiscinfo>
+ <refmiscinfo class="version">3.6</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>smbclient</refname>
- <refpurpose>ftp-like client to access SMB/CIFS resources
+ <refpurpose>ftp-like client to access SMB/CIFS resources
on servers</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<arg choice="opt">-m maxprotocol</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-A authfile</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-N</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">-C</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">-g</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-i scope</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-O <socket options></arg>
<arg choice="opt">-p port</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-P</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-c <command></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
-
+
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>smbclient</command>
<arg choice="req">servicename</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-m maxprotocol</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-A authfile</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-N</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">-C</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">-g</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-l log-basename</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-I destinationIP</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-E</arg>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>-R <name resolve order></term>
+ <term>-R|--name-resolve <name resolve order></term>
<listitem><para>This option is used by the programs in the Samba
suite to determine what naming services and in what order to resolve
host names to IP addresses. The option takes a space-separated
<varlistentry>
- <term>-M NetBIOS name</term>
+ <term>-M|--message NetBIOS name</term>
<listitem><para>This options allows you to send messages, using
the "WinPopup" protocol, to another computer. Once a connection is
established you then type your message, pressing ^D (control-D) to
on your WfWg PCs if you want them to always be able to receive
messages. </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+
<varlistentry>
- <term>-p port</term>
+ <term>-p|--port port</term>
<listitem><para>This number is the TCP port number that will be used
when making connections to the server. The standard (well-known)
TCP port number for an SMB/CIFS server is 139, which is the
default. </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-g|--grepable</term>
+ <listitem><para>This parameter provides combined with
+ <parameter>-L</parameter> easy parseable output that allows processing
+ with utilities such as grep and cut.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-m|--max-protocol protocol</term>
+ <listitem><para>This parameter sets the maximum protocol version announced by the client.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term>-P</term>
<listitem><para>
Make queries to the external server using the machine account of the local server.
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+
&stdarg.help;
-
+
<varlistentry>
- <term>-I IP-address</term>
- <listitem><para><replaceable>IP address</replaceable> is the address of the server to connect to.
+ <term>-I|--ip-address IP-address</term>
+ <listitem><para><replaceable>IP address</replaceable> is the address of the server to connect to.
It should be specified in standard "a.b.c.d" notation. </para>
<para>Normally the client would attempt to locate a named
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>-E</term>
+ <term>-E|--stderr</term>
<listitem><para>This parameter causes the client to write messages
to the standard error stream (stderr) rather than to the standard
output stream. </para>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>-L</term>
+ <term>-L|--list</term>
<listitem><para>This option allows you to look at what services
are available on a server. You use it as <command>smbclient -L
host</command> and a list should appear. The <parameter>-I
host on another network. </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry>
- <term>-t terminal code</term>
- <listitem><para>This option tells <command>smbclient</command> how to interpret
- filenames coming from the remote server. Usually Asian language
- multibyte UNIX implementations use different character sets than
- SMB/CIFS servers (<emphasis>EUC</emphasis> instead of <emphasis>
- SJIS</emphasis> for example). Setting this parameter will let
- <command>smbclient</command> convert between the UNIX filenames and
- the SMB filenames correctly. This option has not been seriously tested
- and may have some problems. </para>
-
- <para>The terminal codes include CWsjis, CWeuc, CWjis7, CWjis8,
- CWjunet, CWhex, CWcap. This is not a complete list, check the Samba
- source code for the complete list. </para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry>
- <term>-b buffersize</term>
+ <term>-b|--send-buffer buffersize</term>
<listitem><para>This option changes the transmit/send buffer
size when getting or putting a file from/to the server. The default
is 65520 bytes. Setting this value smaller (to 1200 bytes) has been
&popt.common.connection;
<varlistentry>
- <term>-T tar options</term>
+ <term>-T|--tar tar options</term>
<listitem><para>smbclient may be used to create <command>tar(1)
</command> compatible backups of all the files on an SMB/CIFS
share. The secondary tar flags that can be given to this option
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>-D initial directory</term>
+ <term>-D|--directory initial directory</term>
<listitem><para>Change to initial directory before starting. Probably
only of any use with the tar -T option. </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
- <term>-c command string</term>
+ <term>-c|--comand command string</term>
<listitem><para>command string is a semicolon-separated list of
commands to be executed instead of prompting from stdin. <parameter>
-N</parameter> is implied by <parameter>-c</parameter>.</para>
<listitem><para>See the exit command. </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>readlink symlinkname</term>
+ <listitem><para>This command depends on the server supporting the CIFS
+ UNIX extensions and will fail if the server does not. Print
+ the value of the symlink "symlinkname".
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry>
<term>rd <directory name></term>
<listitem><para>See the rmdir command. </para></listitem>
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