smbutil(1)
NAME
smbutil - interface to the SMB requester
SYNOPSIS
smbutil [-hv] command [-options] [args]
DESCRIPTION
- The smbutil command is used to control SMB requester and is
- sue various
commands. - There are two types of options -- global and local to the
- specified
command. - Global options are as follows:
- -h Print a short help message.
- -v Verbose output.
- The commands and local options are:
- crypt [password]
- Encrypt clear text password for use in the ~/.nsmbrc
- file. The
encrypted password starts with the `$$1' symbols. - Warning: the
encryption function is very weak and intended only - to hide clear
text password. If password is omitted from the com - mand line,
smbutil will prompt for one. - help command
- Print usage information about command.
- lc List active connections and their parameters.
- login [-connection_options] //user@server[/share]
- Login/attach to the specified server and/or share as
- user. This
command will create and authenticate connection to - an SMB server,
and will leave it active after exit. Thus, it is - possible to
login only once and then use other SMB commands - without authentication procedure and additional connections. For
- the description
of -connection_options refer to the mount_smbfs(8) - manpage (all
uppercase options are connection options). - logout //user@server[/share]
- Logout/detach from the specified server and/or share
- as user.
This command will destroy a connection created by - the login command. A connection may not be closed immediately if
- it is used
by other programs. - lookup [-w host] name
- Resolve the given name to an IP address. The Net
- BIOS name server
can be directly specified via the -w option. - print [-connection_options] //user@server/share file
- Send the given file to the specified queue on the
- remote server.
If file is -, then standard input will be used. - view [-connection_options] //user@server
- List resources available on the specified server for
- the user
user.
FILES
- ~/.nsmbrc Keeps description for each connection. See
- ./examples/dot.nsmbrc for details.
AUTHORS
Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>, <bp@FreeBSD.org>
BUGS
- Please report any bugs to the author.
- BSD February 14, 2000