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| 2 | .\" Title: libsmbclient
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| 3 | .\" Author: [see the "AUTHOR" section]
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| 5 | .\" Date: 11/01/2012
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| 6 | .\" Manual: 7
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| 7 | .\" Source: Samba 3.5
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| 8 | .\" Language: English
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| 10 | .TH "LIBSMBCLIENT" "7" "11/01/2012" "Samba 3\&.5" "7"
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| 19 | .\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE *
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| 21 | .SH "NAME"
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| 22 | libsmbclient \- An extension library for browsers and that can be used as a generic browsing API\&.
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| 23 | .SH "SYNOPSIS"
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| 24 | .HP \w'\ 'u
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| 25 | .PP
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| 26 | Browser URL:
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| 27 | smb://[[[domain:]user[:password@]]server[/share[/path[/file]]]] [?options]
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| 28 | .SH "DESCRIPTION"
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| 29 | .PP
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| 30 | This tool is part of the
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| 31 | \fBsamba\fR(7)
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| 32 | suite\&.
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| 33 | .PP
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| 34 |
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| 35 | libsmbclient
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| 36 | is a library toolset that permits applications to manipulate CIFS/SMB network resources using many of the standards POSIX functions available for manipulating local UNIX/Linux files\&. It permits much more than just browsing, files can be opened and read or written, permissions changed, file times modified, attributes and ACL\'s can be manipulated, and so on\&. Of course, its functionality includes all the capabilities commonly called browsing\&.
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| 37 | .PP
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| 38 |
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| 39 | libsmbclient
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| 40 | can not be used directly from the command line, instead it provides an extension of the capabilities of tools such as file managers and browsers\&. This man page describes the configuration options for this tool so that the user may obtain greatest utility of use\&.
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| 41 | .SH "OPTIONS"
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| 42 | .PP
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| 43 | What the URLs mean:
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| 44 | .PP
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| 45 | smb://
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| 46 | .RS 4
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| 47 | Shows all workgroups or domains that are visible in the network\&. The behavior matches that of the Microsoft Windows Explorer\&.
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| 48 | .sp
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| 49 | The method of locating the list of workgroups (domains also) varies depending on the setting of the context variable
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| 50 | (context\->options\&.browse_max_lmb_count)\&. It is the responsibility of the application that calls this library to set this to a sensible value\&. This is a compile\-time option\&. This value determines the maximum number of local master browsers to query for the list of workgroups\&. In order to ensure that the list is complete for those present on the network, all master browsers must be querried\&. If there are a large number of workgroups on the network, the time spent querying will be significant\&. For small networks (just a few workgroups), it is suggested to set this value to 0, instructing libsmbclient to query all local master browsers\&. In an environment that has many workgroups a more reasonable setting may be around 3\&.
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| 51 | .RE
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| 52 | .PP
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| 53 | smb://name/
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| 54 | .RS 4
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| 55 | This command causes libsmbclient to perform a name look\-up\&. If the NAME<1D> or NAME<1B> exists (workgroup name), libsmbclient will list all servers in the workgroup (or domain)\&. Otherwise, a name look\-up for the NAME<20> (machine name) will be performed, and the list of shared resources on the server will be displayed\&.
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| 56 | .RE
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| 57 | .PP
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| 58 | When libsmbclient is invoked by an application it searches for a directory called
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| 59 | \&.smb
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| 60 | in the $HOME directory that is specified in the users shell environment\&. It then searches for a file called
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| 61 | smb\&.conf
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| 62 | which, if present, will fully over\-ride the system
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| 63 | /etc/samba/smb\&.conf
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| 64 | file\&. If instead libsmbclient finds a file called
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| 65 | ~/\&.smb/smb\&.conf\&.append, it will read the system
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| 66 | /etc/samba/smb\&.conf
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| 67 | and then append the contents of the
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| 68 | ~/\&.smb/smb\&.conf\&.append
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| 69 | to it\&.
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| 70 | .PP
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| 71 |
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| 72 | libsmbclient
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| 73 | will check the users shell environment for the
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| 74 | USER
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| 75 | parameter and will use its value when if the
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| 76 | user
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| 77 | parameter was not included in the URL\&.
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| 78 | .SH "PROGRAMMERS GUIDE"
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| 79 | .PP
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| 80 | Watch this space for future updates\&.
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| 81 | .SH "VERSION"
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| 82 | .PP
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| 83 | This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite\&.
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| 84 | .SH "AUTHOR"
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| 85 | .PP
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| 86 | The original Samba software and related utilities were created by Andrew Tridgell\&. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed\&.
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| 87 | .PP
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| 88 | The libsmbclient manpage page was written by John H Terpstra\&.
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