Coming soon – net utilities and smbshell
Wei is back from China after a well deserved vacation. She (as always) is rareing to get started on a new project, so I’ve asked her to take point on our net utilities. Stay tuned for the well-known familiar net utility on Linux. We’re not going to create a whole bunch of strange commands, we will make available the well known one’s that Windows users are familiar with – net use, net view, net localgroup, net user, net share, net time.
Adam Bernstein is going to work on smbshell. This utility will be similar to his super popular regshell utility that lets you browse the Likewise Registry. The best parts of regshell were the tab completion support. smbshell will be similar – it will allow you to interactively walk an smbshare and copy files. It is an absolute nightmare to copy files from the commandline in a Linux world and we hope to make this drop dead simple.
We’ll push these out in the 5.4 release which by the way was pushed out to the public git tree – we will need to release binaries quickly.
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