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+<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>libsmbclient</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.68.1"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="libsmbclient.7"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>libsmbclient — An extension library for browsers and that can be used as a generic browsing API.</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="command">Browser URL:</code> <p>
+ smb://[[[domain:]user[:password@]]server[/share[/path[/file]]]] [?options]
+ </p></p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2489036"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>
+ This tool is part of the <a href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.
+ </p><p>
+ <span><strong class="command">libsmbclient</strong></span> 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.
+ </p><p>
+ <span><strong class="command">libsmbclient</strong></span> 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.
+ </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2489082"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><p>
+ What the URLs mean:
+ </p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">smb://</span></dt><dd><p>
+ Shows all workgroups or domains that are visible in the network. The behavior matches
+ that of the Microsoft Windows Explorer.
+ </p><p>
+ The method of locating the list of workgroups (domains also) varies depending on the setting of
+ the context variable <code class="literal">(context->options.browse_max_lmb_count)</code>. 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.
+ </p></dd><dt><span class="term">smb://name/</span></dt><dd><p>
+ 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.
+ </p></dd></dl></div><p>
+ When libsmbclient is invoked by an application it searches for a directory called
+ <code class="filename">.smb</code> in the $HOME directory that is specified in the users shell
+ environment. It then searches for a file called <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> which,
+ if present, will fully over-ride the system <code class="filename">/etc/samba/smb.conf</code> file. If
+ instead libsmbclient finds a file called <code class="filename">~/.smb/smb.conf.append</code>,
+ it will read the system <code class="filename">/etc/samba/smb.conf</code> and then append the
+ contents of the <code class="filename">~/.smb/smb.conf.append</code> to it.
+ </p><p>
+ <span><strong class="command">libsmbclient</strong></span> will check the users shell environment for the <code class="literal">USER</code>
+ parameter and will use its value when if the <code class="literal">user</code> parameter was not included
+ in the URL.
+ </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2450733"></a><h2>PROGRAMMERS GUIDE</h2><p>
+ Watch this space for future updates.
+ </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2450744"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>
+ This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.
+ </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id2450755"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>
+ 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.
+ </p><p>
+ The libsmbclient manpage page was written by John H Terpstra.
+ </p></div></div></body></html>
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