Can't find or run smbclient on my system

Gabriel Menini amahoro at adinet.com.uy
Wed Mar 4 22:43:25 GMT 2009


On Wednesday 04 March 2009 16:09:42 you wrote:
> Fedora Core 10 on Dell D600  Whereis and find from root do not find
> smbclient.
>
> $ whereis smbclient
> smbclient:
> $
>
> that is what my terminal looks like when I try.  I'm thinking that I'll
> have to re-install samba-swat.

Please, reply to list, not to poster.

Have yum?
Search your package tree:
$ yum search samba client

If you get something like 

samba-client-3.0.x.y.z.rpm

then issue as root:

# yum install samba-client

That should install the smbclient binary file you're missing.

Regards,

>
> > From: amahoro at adinet.com.uy
> > To: smb-clients at lists.samba.org
> > Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:26:31 -0200
> > Subject: Re: Can't find or run smbclient on my system
> >
> > On Wednesday 04 March 2009 01:20:52 David Ward wrote:
> > > I'm trying to get Samba working following the Samba Checklist.  It
> > > directs me to run smbclient -L but when I do (from root) i'm informed
> > > that smbclient doesn't exist.  When I search my files I find the HTML
> > > doc about use of smbclient but no smbclient.  Can I get this somewhere?
> > >  What else can I do?  Thanks, Dave.
> >
> > Hi, Dave.
> >
> > Try issuing:
> >
> > $ whereis smbclient
> >
> > If nothing is listed, please report which system are you using (i.e.:
> > GNU/Linux, *BSD, ...)
> >
> > Regards,
> > --
> > Arlequín
> > Linux Registered User #207262
>
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