Questions from a Total samba Novice.

[Wojciech Puchar]

>       smbclient(1)
> 	  The smbclient program implements a simple ftp-like client.  This  is
> 	  useful for accessing SMB shares on other compatible servers (such as
> 	  Windows NT), and can also be used to allow a UNIX box to print to  a
> 	  printer  attached  to  any  SMB server (such as a PC running Windows
> 	  NT).



smbclient connects to any SMB server (be it Windows or unix or whatever) 
and perform fetch, upload and other operations from command line.

it's good to:

testing your samba setup (if you need)
fetching/uploading files to windoze from unix, if windoze has folder 
sharing enabled.


if you need file server for use with windoze - configure smb.conf properly 
and run samba with

smbd_enable="YES"
nmbd_enable="YES"


in /etc/rc.conf

and then by

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba start (or stop/restart)