[Gllug] Using smbclient to access NT shares

[Wulf Forrester-Barker]

Will <will at hellacool.co.uk> asked:

> I have just started using smbclient to unsuccessfully leech my 
> colleagues mp3 collections ... They are mostly running NT4 and
> the shares are not password protected....

As an <grin>established expert</grin> (having been making minor use of
Samba since, erm, earlier this week) here's what I'm doing:

mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,password=bar //targetpc/targetshare
/home/wulf/mountdirectory

(all details obviously obfuscated....)

This works fine and then allows me to use all my favourite command line
tools to go in and explore or borrow from the mounted file system.

If the share is unprotected, I still give a valid username but leave
the password blank, ie.

-o username=foo,password= //tar....

As I recall, I hit a problem when I tried to leave the username off
when going to one machine - when I went to the share I'd set up on my
machine (NT4), I'd still required a specified user even though that
account has no password.

I also found that the mounts would drop the connection after a certain
time, so I've written a script which tests that they're still there
every 20 minutes (via cron) and remounts if necessary (although just
checking that a specified file exists in each one seems to be enough to
keep the connection alive).

I haven't tried smbclient, but for what you're looking for, I don't
know if you need to either.

Wulf



wulf.f-b at uhl.nhs.uk 

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