Other Samba Components
The Samba package includes a number of additional tools:
smbclient— A simple FTP-like client that allows you to connect to remote SMB shares and print to remote Windows printers.
testparm— A configuration file syntax checker that tests your smb.conf for correctness; similar to apachectl configtest for Apache.
smbcontrol— A tool that allows you to send messages to running smbd processes, such as a command to kick a user off the system.
smbstatus— Displays current connections to the Samba server. SWAT, as you saw earlier, has a page that shows the formatted output of this command in a web browser.
nmblookup— Allows you to make NetBIOS name queries like those made by Windows hosts connecting directly to SMB shares by name.
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