Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

Accessing Shares

Samba shares can be accessed by SMB clients on Windows and Linux platforms. Windows access is via Network Neighborhood and Windows Explorer, as well as the net view and net use commands from the DOS prompt. Linux access is via the smbclient and smbmount commands.

Using smbclient on a Linux Client

The smbclient program allows Linux users to access SMB shares on other machines (typically Windows). If you want to access files on other Linux boxes, you can use a variety of methods including FTP, NFS, and the r-commands, such as rcp.

smbclient provides an FTP-like interface that allows you to transfer files with a network share on another computer running an SMB server. Unlike NFS, smbclient does not allow you to mount another share ...