smbclient

I am a newbie.
I am trying to understand the advantages of smbclient over ftp?

Thanks in advance
Mickey

mickeyg wrote:
> I am a newbie.
> I am trying to understand the advantages of smbclient over ftp?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Mickey

I don't find any clear advantages of smbclient over ftp, they
are just different systems, ftp is more general and supported
by almost any operating system and smbclient is just for Samba
or Windows.

I would say that ftp is faster than smbclient.

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In article <yrk%c.1564$%N6.1223@trndny01>, mickeyg wrote:
> I am a newbie.
> I am trying to understand the advantages of smbclient over ftp?

To get files via ftp from Windows machine, you have to have an ftp server
running on that machine; that wasn't standard on Win98 and its spawn.
But Win did provide "sharing".

Other samba clients provide capability to print to a Win-shared printer
from a Unix machine, and permit mounting a Win-shared disk or "folder"
(otherwise known as a 'directory') into a Unix filesystem, (comparable to
associating a Windows share to a drive letter in Windows).

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mickeyg wrote:

> I am a newbie.
> I am trying to understand the advantages of smbclient over ftp?
>

You could use it to get files from a Windows box, that doesn't have the ftp
server on it.

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