Accessing a samba share from Linux

Posted on September 10th, 2009 by egiles

Ubuntu
Make sure you have the proper services installed:
apt-get install smbclient smbfs
List Services
/usr/bin/smbclient -L host
Connect
/usr/bin/smbclient service <password> [-U username]
Example, to connect to a MyBookWorld partition:
/usr/bin/smbclient //MyBookWorld/Public mypassword -U myusername
Where myusername and mypassword are created on the MyBookWorld store and Public is the store on the MyBookWorld.
Mounting the shareMounting a Samba Share
mount -t smbfs -o username=<name>,password=<passwd> //sambashare /mountpoint
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