Hello, this is my first post for a while (2009) so am posting in newbies. I hope to be more active in the future.

My question is in the Subject line.

I have tried smbstatus but this gives a view of the shares from the client perspective.

What I want is a command that shows what my server is offering to the world. The smb.conf file probably has the data but I would like a simple command line way of showing it.

Only for active shares:

Sorry that is not what I meant. I want to display details of the resources that are being offered to clients, not what machines are connected to me.
Eg - Server name, directory path, user, and anything else that a client machine needs to know to be able to connect.

smbclient -L, perhaps? But it requires the server name to be specified.

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Indeed, and from the server itself you can use localhost, host name or IP address i.e

smbclient -L localhost

Depending on distribution smbclient is a separate package and may not be installed by default.

If you press enter without entering a password you will see all the browseable shares and printers. Otherwise to see private shares like your home you need to enter a valid samba username and password.

As a standalone server the "things" you need to know to connect are samba user, samba password, net bios server name if different from hostname or IP address and share name.

knowing what is a public or a guest share that does not require a username password depends on how samba is configured. Depends on a few share and global directives.

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Thanks - I had to install smbclient first but the command with -L option does what I wanted