As Eric already pointed out in December there is indeed a free smbclient. It is written by Michael Kostylev and can be downloaded from his DynDNS server at:
http://mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff/ The server is up at the moment. Although experimental, smbclient.exe is promising. I was able to connect from my freedos 486SX to my Windows XP Thinkpad and transfer files with "get" and "put" commands. "smbclnt \\laptop\share" "Password:" (leave empty) and that's it. Authentication with Samba on my Debian Etch server didn't work; after typing the password I got a "NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE". Still working on it. I normally use "passdb backend = tdbsam" in smb.conf for authentication but changing to a flat "smbpasswd" file didn't work either. Maybe it's the encryption... Smbclient.exe uses the WATT32 library and thus needs a wattcp.cfg in the same directory where it is started. It complains about a missing "/dev/env/DJDIR/lib/samba/smb.cfg" but works nevertheless. I renamed the executable to "smbclnt.exe" as the original is a 9.3 filename. It is fascinating to connect to Windows shares with just that executable, the WATTCP.CFG file and a packet driver loaded. Thanks Michael! (and Eric for pointing me there). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
