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From a linux client smbclient can be used display and connect to the samba shares

in the following examples replace 127.0.0.1 with the ip address of the samba server or use the server name instead of the ip address.

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smbclient -L 127.0.0.1

to connect to a share

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/usr/bin/smbclient \\\\127.0.0.1\\public mypasswd

or

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/usr/bin/smbclient \\\\mysambaserver\\public mypasswd

for a good description see
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-8.html

This is the smbclient Linux man page
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/smbclient.1.html