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Samba : Access to Share from Clients (Ubuntu)2025/04/22

 

Access to Share from Client Hosts.

[1] On Ubuntu 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 ubuntu

Password for [WORKGROUP\ubuntu]:
Try "help" to get a list of possible commands.
smb: \> ls 
  .                                   D        0  Tue Apr 22 07:11:48 2025
  ..                                  D        0  Tue Apr 22 07:11:48 2025
  New Text Document.txt               A       15  Tue Apr 22 07:11:56 2025
  New folder                          D        0  Tue Apr 22 07:11:44 2025

                28719140 blocks of size 1024. 20357748 blocks available

# download a file
smb: \> mget "New Text Document.txt" 
Get file New Text Document.txt? y
getting file \New Text Document.txt of size 15 as New Text Document.txt (150000.0 KiloBytes/sec) (average inf KiloBytes/sec)
smb: \> !ls
'New Text Document.txt'
smb: \> exit


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

root@node01:~#
mount -t cifs -o vers=3,username=ubuntu '\\smb.srv.world\Share01' /mnt

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


root@node01:~#
df -hT

Filesystem                        Type   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                             tmpfs  341M  1.5M  339M   1% /run
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv ext4    28G  6.6G   20G  26% /
tmpfs                             tmpfs  1.7G     0  1.7G   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  1.7G     0  1.7G   0% /tmp
tmpfs                             tmpfs  1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-resolved.service
/dev/vda2                         ext4   2.0G  107M  1.7G   6% /boot
tmpfs                             tmpfs  1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/systemd-networkd.service
tmpfs                             tmpfs  1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/serial-getty@ttyS0.service
tmpfs                             tmpfs  1.0M     0  1.0M   0% /run/credentials/getty@tty1.service
tmpfs                             tmpfs  341M   12K  341M   1% /run/user/0
//smb.srv.world/Share01           cifs    28G  8.0G   20G  30% /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 the File Explorer and right-click the [Network] on the left pane, then select [Map Network Drive].
[3] Specify the shared folder Path onthe [Folder] section and Click the [Finish] button.
[4] Authentication is required if you set 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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