[Samba] General question about 'smbclient'

[Mark Adams]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:04:51PM +0100, Mark Adams wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 09:56:05AM +0200, André Jee wrote:
> > As above,
> > 
> > From what I understand (also obvious from the package name) is that 
> > 'smbclient' is only a client.
> > You can browse shares or use it for troubleshooting. Does it have any 
> > affect on the actual samba server?
> 
> You can also use it to mount shares.

Sorry this was wrong - I was thinking of smbmount/smbfs
> > 
> > I mean does this package have to be installed in order for a samba 
> > server to work properly?
> 
> No it does not need to be installed for samba to work.
> 
> > It seems to be that this package can be removed, I just want to make 
> > sure that it's not an important part of the samba server.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > -- 
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark