Samba : Access to Share from Clients (Fedora)2023/04/28

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

[root@node01 ~]#

dnf -y install samba-client cifs-utils

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

[root@node01 ~]#

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

Password for [SAMBA\fedora]:
Try "help" to get a list of possible commands.
smb: \> ls 
  .                                   D        0  Fri Apr 28 11:08:53 2023
  ..                                  D        0  Fri Apr 28 11:00:43 2023
  testdir                             D        0  Fri Apr 28 11:05:58 2023
  testfile.txt                        N      901  Fri Apr 28 11:05:21 2023

                29294592 blocks of size 1024. 27328940 blocks available

# download a file
smb: \> mget "testfile.txt" 
Get file testfile.txt? y
getting file \testfile.txt of size 901 as testfile.txt (146.6 KiloBytes/sec) (average 146.6 KiloBytes/sec)
smb: \> !ls
anaconda-ks.cfg  testfile.txt
smb: \> exit

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

[root@node01 ~]#

mount -t cifs -o vers=3.0,username=fedora '\\smb.srv.world\Share01' /mnt

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

[root@node01 ~]#

df -hT

Filesystem              Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                devtmpfs  4.0M     0  4.0M   0% /dev
tmpfs                   tmpfs     2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                   tmpfs     780M  972K  780M   1% /run
/dev/mapper/fedora-root xfs        28G  2.3G   26G   9% /
tmpfs                   tmpfs     2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /tmp
/dev/vda2               xfs       960M  281M  680M  30% /boot
tmpfs                   tmpfs     390M     0  390M   0% /run/user/0
//smb.srv.world/Share01 cifs       28G  1.9G   27G   7% /mnt

# if a 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 [Show more options] - [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 passed authentication, it's possible to access to shared folder.

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