p0dalirius/smbclient-ng

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

smbclient-ng is a Python command-line tool providing a fast, user-friendly interactive shell for interacting with SMB shares on remote Windows machines. It offers familiar filesystem-like commands (ls, cd, get, put, cat) plus extras like ACL listing and file metadata for both remote and local operations.

Use cases

• browse and transfer files on SMB shares from the command line
• enumerate Windows file shares during a penetration test
• list ACLs of files and folders on an SMB share
• download files recursively from a remote SMB share
• replace the clunky smbclient interface with a friendlier shell
• inspect file metadata and share info on a remote server

When to choose

• you need an interactive, intuitive shell for SMB share access
• you are doing Windows/Active Directory security assessments and need to move files over SMB
• you want modern features like pretty-printed file contents and ACL listing that smbclient lacks

When to avoid

• you need a non-Python, cross-platform binary - the author recommends the newer Go rewrite at TheManticoreProject/smbclient-ng
• you need scripted, non-interactive SMB automation rather than an interactive shell
• you only need simple one-off SMB file copies available in your OS tools

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli file-system security developer-tools security penetration-testing files networking python cli windows cross-platform smb smb-client windows-shares active-directory pentesting file-transfer command-line linux macos

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