How to use samba on the command line

Posted by suvi under Samba

Just a short how to access samba shares via the command line.

smbtree – finds windows machines and samba shares. See example below:
~$ smbtree
Password:
WORKGROUP
MSHOME
\\MYTH-DESKTOP myth-desktop server (Samba, Mythbuntu)
\\MYTH-DESKTOP\videos Videos
Workgroup and MSHOME are two workgroups found by smbtree. MYTH-DESKTOP is a machine on the MSHOME workgroup that has a samba share of “videos”.
nmblookup gets
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