smbclient is the command that we want to use for testing
## smbclient comes with the smbclient package which smbclient # /usr/bin/smbclient dpkg -S /usr/bin/smbclient # smbclient: /usr/bin/smbclient
First get the share names with (I use -N to omit the password, most often you dont need a password to list the shares with samba)
smbclient -L 10.39.2.11 -N # Unknown parameter encountered: "force writeback" # Ignoring unknown parameter "force writeback" # WARNING: The "null passwords" option is deprecated # Unknown parameter encountered: "reverse sendfile" # Ignoring unknown parameter "reverse sendfile" # # Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.0.5] # # Sharename Type Comment # --------- ---- ------- # all-data Disk data # IPC$ IPC IPC Service (3C833A0300244) #Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.0.5] # # Server Comment # --------- ------- # # Workgroup Master # --------- -------
NOTE: we see a share called all-data
NOTE: we use -N which means use “no password”, in otherwords a blank password. Otherwise without -N it would ask for a password and we would hit enter to simulate no password. This passwordless entry only works for guest mode / anonymous access. If you do need username / password access you would not use -N. Instead you would use -U to specify the user (or username & domain at the same time DOMAIN\USER or USER@DOMAIN.com). In this case I have a very simply samba config that allows anonymous access so I use -N.
Then test listing the contents of the share with ls
smbclient //10.39.2.11/all-data -c "ls" -N # Unknown parameter encountered: "force writeback" # Ignoring unknown parameter "force writeback" # WARNING: The "null passwords" option is deprecated # Unknown parameter encountered: "reverse sendfile" # Ignoring unknown parameter "reverse sendfile" # Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.0.5] # . D 0 Tue Aug 27 10:21:11 2013 # .. D 0 Mon Oct 19 18:57:36 2015 # aquota.group.new N 7168 Tue Aug 27 10:21:11 2013 # backup D 0 Wed Jul 22 14:21:10 2015 # .timemachine DH 0 Mon Aug 17 14:09:03 2009 # lost+found D 0 Mon Aug 17 14:06:03 2009 # aquota.group N 7168 Mon Dec 1 17:58:38 2014 # aquota.user.new N 8192 Tue Aug 27 10:21:11 2013 # home D 0 Fri Nov 22 10:07:23 2013 # aquota.user N 8192 Mon Dec 1 17:58:38 2014 # archive D 0 Wed Apr 15 15:52:28 2015 # # 65535 blocks of size 33553920. 7371 blocks available
Try listing contents of a folder in a share:
smbclient //10.39.2.11/all-data -c "ls archive/*" -N # Unknown parameter encountered: "force writeback" # Ignoring unknown parameter "force writeback" # WARNING: The "null passwords" option is deprecated # Unknown parameter encountered: "reverse sendfile" # Ignoring unknown parameter "reverse sendfile" # Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.0.5] # . D 0 Wed Apr 15 15:52:28 2015 # .. D 0 Tue Aug 27 10:21:11 2013 # 2882009CDrive D 0 Tue Sep 1 19:12:00 2009 # SQLServer2005SP3.exe A 341786976 Thu Nov 27 07:28:00 2008 # someapp1.exe A 4487016 Mon Aug 24 13:12:12 2009 # Futura Font D 0 Wed Dec 24 11:37:35 2014 # # 65535 blocks of size 33553920. 7371 blocks available
NOTE: to list the insides of a directory you have to suffix with /*
Now test getting the permission of a file or a folder
smbclient //10.39.2.11/all-data -c "getfacl archive" -N # # file: \archive # # owner: 65534 # # group: 65534 # user::rwx # group::rwx # other::rwx # default:user::rwx # default:group::rwx # default:other::rwx
NOTE: I ommited that warning/error prefix message on this output, and the next output as well
Now test getting/downloading a file
smbclient //10.39.2.11/all-data -c "get archive/someapp1.exe /root/someapp2.exe" -N # getting file \archive/cp010883.exe of size 4487016 as /root/cp010883.exe (625970.1 KiloBytes/sec) (average 625978.8 KiloBytes/sec)
NOTE: notice I downloaded a file call someapp1 from folder archive in the share all-data off the samba server 10.39.2.11, to a /root folder locally on this machine (where im running the smbclient command). I called the file someapp2.exe. This even lists the speed of download.
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