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6 <refentrytitle>libsmbclient</refentrytitle>
7 <manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
12 <refname>libsmbclient</refname>
13 <refpurpose>An extension library for browsers and that can be used as a generic browsing API.</refpurpose>
18 <command>Browser URL:</command>
20 smb://[[[domain:]user[:password@]]server[/share[/path[/file]]]] [?options]
27 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
30 This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
31 <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.
35 <command>libsmbclient</command> is a library toolset that permits applications to manipulate CIFS/SMB network
36 resources using many of the standards POSIX functions available for manipulating local UNIX/Linux files. It
37 permits much more than just browsing, files can be opened and read or written, permissions changed, file times
38 modified, attributes and ACL's can be manipulated, and so on. Of course, its functionality includes all the
39 capabilities commonly called browsing.
43 <command>libsmbclient</command> can not be used directly from the command line, instead it provides an
44 extension of the capabilities of tools such as file managers and browsers. This man page describes the
45 configuration options for this tool so that the user may obtain greatest utility of use.
50 <title>OPTIONS</title>
60 Shows all workgroups or domains that are visible in the network. The behavior matches
61 that of the Microsoft Windows Explorer.
65 The method of locating the list of workgroups (domains also) varies depending on the setting of
66 the context variable <literal>(context->options.browse_max_lmb_count)</literal>. It is the
67 responsibility of the application that calls this library to set this to a sensible value. This
68 is a compile-time option. This value determines the maximum number of local master browsers to
69 query for the list of workgroups. In order to ensure that the list is complete for those present
70 on the network, all master browsers must be querried. If there are a large number of workgroups
71 on the network, the time spent querying will be significant. For small networks (just a few
72 workgroups), it is suggested to set this value to 0, instructing libsmbclient to query all local
73 master browsers. In an environment that has many workgroups a more reasonable setting may be around 3.
78 <term>smb://name/</term>
80 This command causes libsmbclient to perform a name look-up. If the NAME<1D> or
81 NAME<1B> exists (workgroup name), libsmbclient will list all servers in the
82 workgroup (or domain). Otherwise, a name look-up for the NAME<20> (machine name)
83 will be performed, and the list of shared resources on the server will be displayed.
89 When libsmbclient is invoked by an application it searches for a directory called
90 <filename>.smb</filename> in the $HOME directory that is specified in the users shell
91 environment. It then searches for a file called <filename>smb.conf</filename> which,
92 if present, will fully over-ride the system <filename>/etc/samba/smb.conf</filename> file. If
93 instead libsmbclient finds a file called <filename>~/.smb/smb.conf.append</filename>,
94 it will read the system <filename>/etc/samba/smb.conf</filename> and then append the
95 contents of the <filename>~/.smb/smb.conf.append</filename> to it.
99 <command>libsmbclient</command> will check the users shell environment for the <literal>USER</literal>
100 parameter and will use its value when if the <literal>user</literal> parameter was not included
107 <title>PROGRAMMERS GUIDE</title>
110 Watch this space for future updates.
116 <title>VERSION</title>
119 This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.
124 <title>AUTHOR</title>
127 The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell.
128 Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way
129 the Linux kernel is developed.
133 The libsmbclient manpage page was written by John H Terpstra.