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# Smbclient

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smbclient is an FTP-like client to access SMB/CIFS resources on servers. See also: Samba

## Installation

Install smbclient, available in the official repositories.

## Essential commands

To display public shares on the server:

    $ smbclient -L <hostname> -U%

To connect to a share:

    $ smbclient //<hostname>/<share> -U<username>%<password>

## Commonly used commands

help [command] or ? [command] | show all available commands or give help about a specific command
put <local name> [remote name] | upload a file
get <remote name> [local name] | download a file
ls [mask] | list current directory content
cd [directory] | change current directory; without the argument print working directory
lcd <directory> | change local working directory
mget <mask> | download all files matching mask
mput <mask> | upload all files matching mask
recurse | enable recursive directory download/upload with mget/mput commands
prompt | toggle prompting on every single file or directory when using mget/mput commands. By default prompting is enabled
!<local command> | execute a local command and capture output

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- Networking