Samba : Access to Share from Clients (Debian)2025/09/15

	Access to Share from Client Hosts.
[1]	On Debian clients with CUI, access like follows.

root@node01:~#

apt -y install smbclient cifs-utils

# on [smbclient] command access
# smbclient (share name) -U (user name)

root@node01:~#

smbclient '\\smb.srv.world\Share01' -U debian

Password for [WORKGROUP\debian]:
Try "help" to get a list of possible commands.
smb: \> ls 
  .                                   D        0  Mon Sep 15 10:15:05 2025
  ..                                  D        0  Mon Sep 15 10:15:05 2025
  test.tst                            N       20  Mon Sep 15 10:15:00 2025
  testdir                             D        0  Mon Sep 15 10:15:05 2025
  testfile.txt                        N    12990  Mon Sep 15 10:14:47 2025

                28215076 blocks of size 1024. 25340164 blocks available

# download a file
smb: \> mget "testfile.txt" 
Get file New Text Document.txt? y
getting file \testfile.txt of size 12990 as testfile.txt (12684.3 KiloBytes/sec) (average 12685.5 KiloBytes/sec)
smb: \> !ls
testfile.txt
smb: \> exit

# on [mount] command access
# [vers=(SMB protocol version)]

root@node01:~#

mount -t cifs -o vers=3,username=debian '\\smb.srv.world\Share01' /mnt

Password for debian@\\smb.srv.world\Share01:  ********     # user's SMB password

root@node01:~#

df -hT

Filesystem                  Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                        devtmpfs  1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs                       tmpfs     392M  988K  392M   1% /run
/dev/mapper/debian--vg-root ext4       27G  1.3G   25G   5% /
tmpfs                       tmpfs     2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                       tmpfs     5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                       tmpfs     1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service
tmpfs                       tmpfs     2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /tmp
/dev/vda1                   ext4      943M  135M  743M  16% /boot
tmpfs                       tmpfs     1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/getty@ttyS0.service
tmpfs                       tmpfs     392M  4.0K  392M   1% /run/user/0
//smb.srv.world/Share01     cifs       27G  2.8G   25G  11% /mnt

# if share does not require authentication, specify [none] for username

root@node01:~#

mount -t cifs -o vers=3,username=none,password=none '\\smb.srv.world\Share' /mnt

Samba : Access to Share from Clients (Windows)

	It's the way to access to the shared folder. This example is on Windows 11.
[2]	Open File Explorer and right-click the [Network] on the left pane, then select [Map Network Drive].

[3]	Specify the shared folder Path on [Folder] section and Click the [Finish] button.

[4]	Authentication is required if you set common shared folder with authentication, Input Samba username and password you added.

[5]	After successfully authentication, it's possible to access to shared folder.

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