how to access remote server with smb://

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I have an account on my university’s server that, I was told, I can access through the following protocol.

smb://webdrive.university-name-here.edu/rybnik

My university’s IT helpdesk was rather clueless on how to help me once I said that I run openSUSE Linux. They only give instructions on how to “map” the network drive using GUIs for windows/mac, and they just told me to use the protocol which I quoted above.

So… how can I get access to that? When I googled “linux gui smb access” (without the quotes), I found smb4k, but I didn’t have any success with that.

Ideally, I would like to do this in Dolphin, since I have previously used the fish:// protocol to get to a (different) remote server from Dolphin, and I really liked that interface.

Thanks.

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Everything on windows is so hard… and luckily you’re on Linux.

Open dolphin, but instead of using ‘fish’ (SCP) you’ll us smb because this
is smb). In your case the line is likely:

smb://webdrive.university-name-here.edu/rybnik

You should be prompted for credentials (username/password) so enter those
and away you go.

Also, from the command line you have tools like smbclient:

smbclient -U usernameHere ‘//webdrive.university-name-here.edu/rybnik’

Once you login the interface is like the ftp command with ‘get’ to
download stuff, ‘put’ to upload stuff, and ‘cd’ to change directories.

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Thanks, but neither of your suggested methods worked.

In case this wasn’t clear, rybnik is my username and not part of the remote hostname.

In dolphin’s “add entry” (to places) menu, none of the following worked (and none of them even prompted me for my password)

smb://webdrive.university-name-here.edu/rybnik
smb://webdrive.university-name-here.edu
smb://rybnik@webdrive.university-name-here.edu

In the terminal, none of the following commands worked.

smbclient -U rybnik ‘//webdrive.university-name.edu’ (returned the error message “Not enough ‘’ characters in service”)
smbclient -U rybnik ‘//webdrive.university-name.edu/rybnik’ (returned the error message “Error NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL”
smbclient ‘//webdrive.university-name.edu/rybnik’ (This one thought that my username on my own computer was also my username on the remote server, which is not the case. It returned the same error message as above.)

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Ah, no that was not clear. With an SMB path you have at least two parts:

server name/IP/DNS
share/volume

In the paths above I assumed /rybnik was the share name. Apparently that
is NOT the case. Assuming you specify the host properly, and the username
(-U for smbclient, or you’ll just be prompted for that and the password if
using Dolphin), the last step is to know the share setup by the SMB server
administrators. You can test, if you have Administrator account
credentials on the server, using ‘c$’ which is a special, always-there
share of the entire c: “drive” (windows term). If you do not have
Administrator credentials you likely will not get in there.

Find out from the administrators what the name of the share is and then
use that after the //server.here/ in the big path, either in Dolphin or
smbclient. That share name MAY be the same as your username, but perhaps not.

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