6.6. Some tools

6.6.1. smbclient

This is a utility close to ftp that enables you to connect to a PC running Windows.

For more information, run man smbclient.

6.6.2. smbfs

For you to be able to mount/unmount some directories from Windows on your GNU/Linux box, your kernel needs to support the smbfs filesystem (which is the case for the Linux-Mandrake distribution). Then you can use the programs smbmount and/or smbumount. For example: smbmount "\\win\work" -c 'mount /mnt -u 123 -g 456'. Which will locally mount the share work with a local UID of 123 and a local GID of 456.

6.6.3. smbtar

Allows to create tar archives remotely. Read the manual page for more information on its numerous options.


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