List samba shares and current users

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Looking for a simple way to do this from the command line.

List samba shares and the users who can access each of them.

List samba shares and the users currently connected to them.

List samba shares and every connection (log, including user) that has been established to each of them.

Any ideas? Anything you use that's currently available that will give me the bits I need to put this together?

Cheers!

We can list shares from command line using smbtree. We can parse: /etc/samba/smb.conf /var/lib/samba/usershares/*.conf — komputes, Feb 14 '12 at 18:45

score 57 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 29 '13 at 13:55

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Try smbclient -L ip_of_net_interface -U your_user_name. This option allows you to look at what services are available on a server. You use it as smbclient -L host and a list should appear.

answered Aug 29 '13 at 13:55

Hans Ginzel

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Yeah, a very complete listing: shares, servers, workgroup. Thanks! – loved.by.Jesus Jan 30 '21 at 17:10
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smbclient: command not found – Friedrich -- Слава Україні Jan 24 '23 at 13:06
Please google for how to install the smbclient on the distribution you use @Friedrich--СлаваУкраїні – guenhter Jan 24 '23 at 13:26
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@guenhter: Even easier, I used smbstatus; it didn't need an install. – Friedrich -- Слава Україні Jan 24 '23 at 13:31
conveniently, you can use it against your own server's IP address to see what shares you are hosting if you forgot – user5359531 Feb 15 '24 at 19:47

score 50 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 10 '12 at 04:19

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Try to use smbstatus, it seems to be what you need.

answered Jul 10 '12 at 04:19

Max Kochubey

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smbstatus only lists the current connections. What about listing all shares and users who can access them (even if not connected at the time)? – labyrinth Apr 15 '15 at 16:16
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A little more details would have been appreciated – frepie Sep 10 '17 at 20:29

score 29 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 07 '20 at 08:21

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smbstatus --shares

Will retrieve what's being shared and which machine (if any) is connected to what.

edited Aug 07 '20 at 08:21

Zanna

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answered Apr 25 '14 at 08:03

adriano72

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Perfect! But it only shows if im browsing the share, but not if I just have it mapped to Windows. Where NFS shows constantly, but I guess thats because NFS is constantly "mounted", Windows is just mapped, and not mounted till accessed. – FreeSoftwareServers Dec 15 '16 at 17:47

score 17 · Answer 4 · edited Aug 07 '20 at 08:22

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Try net usershare info --long.

/usr/bin/net -> /etc/alternatives/net
/etc/alternatives/net -> /usr/bin/net.samba3

$ man net
net - Tool for administration of Samba and remote CIFS servers.

edited Aug 07 '20 at 08:22

Zanna

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answered Aug 29 '13 at 13:41

Hans Ginzel

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Best answer -- it's been a very long time since I worked with samba and didn't know about the net command – nitrogen Feb 16 '20 at 22:26
or, to show shares that are not usershares, net share list --long – SpinUp __ A Davis Oct 26 '23 at 18:25

score 15 · Answer 5 · answered May 11 '13 at 06:50

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Also, on most systems, typing testparm will give you info about the samba shares of the machine you're currently using. After you press enter at the prompt it'll also show you every uncommented line of smb.conf which can be useful.

answered May 11 '13 at 06:50

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No, testparm only checks for correctness of the configuration file, it shows nothing about what you are currently using. – ChristophS Mar 10 '20 at 09:32

score 8 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 23 '19 at 08:21

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Use the command pdbedit.

sudo pdbedit -L -v

Where -L is to list users & -v is to be verbose.

answered Nov 23 '19 at 08:21

nbk

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score 6 · Answer 7 · edited Aug 07 '20 at 08:23

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Getting the users

net rpc user

Getting the shares per user

Less verbose than smbclient -L is net rpc share list -U $USERNAME

You'll need both because the list of visible shares differs per user.

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Zanna

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answered Apr 14 '16 at 15:09

MSalters

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score 3 · Answer 8 · answered Jan 30 '21 at 11:50

While smbstatus --shares list active connections in your computer, you may want to know which folders are selected as samba shared, even when no current connection is active.

Go into this directory and you will get the name of such folders:

cd /var/lib/samba/usershares

score 2 · Answer 9 · answered Dec 23 '22 at 05:52

I am sharing the list of command that everyone need if you are using smb, I hope this will help you all. if need any help for the same, please comment, I will try to help you to have solution for your problems.

you can write sudo smbstatus command to see the logs shared folder and status of that as well

Samba version 4.7.6-Ubuntu
PID     Username     Group        Machine                                   Protocol Version  Encryption           Signing              
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

you can write the command sudo smbtree to get the tree of root folder and subfolders

WORKGROUP
\\SSHEEL-HP             ssheel-HP server (Samba, Ubuntu)
    \\SSHEEL-HP\Screenshots     
    \\SSHEEL-HP\Movie           
    \\SSHEEL-HP\IPC$            IPC Service (ssheel-HP server (Samba, Ubuntu))
    \\SSHEEL-HP\sambashare      Network Shared Folder by Samba Server on Ubuntu
    \\SSHEEL-HP\print$          Printer Drivers

you can also type sudo smbcontrol command to get all list of controls that you can use with suffix of that command

if you are getting problem to login so you can also set password for smb to get access of shared folders sudo smbpasswd -a ssheel

ssheel@ssheel-HP:~/Videos$ sudo smbpasswd -a ssheel
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Added user ssheel.

List samba shares and current users

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