[Samba] General question about 'smbclient'

[André Jee]

Mark,

Thanks for the confirmation.

Regards,

Andre

-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re:[Samba] General question about 'smbclient'
From: Mark Adams <mark at campbell-lange.net>
To: André Jee <ajee at shipco.com>
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Date: Wed Apr 04 2007 14:11:34 GMT+0200 (Romance Daylight Time)
> 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
>>     
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