Connect to MS Windows from Linux CLI
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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Samba/SambaClientGuide

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install smbclient && sudo apt-get clean

Connecting to a Samba File Server from the command line
Connecting from the command line is similar to a ftp connection.

List public SMB shares with
smbclient -L //server -U user
smbclient -L //server -U user%password

Connect to a SMB share with
smbclient //server/share -U user
smbclient //server/share -U user%password

Once connected you will get a prompt that looks like this :
smb: \>

Type help at the prompt for a list of available commands.

man smbclient will give more information

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CIFS
...better way as it will be part of Linux filesystem and there would be much easier to manage files and folders, e.g. using mc (Midnight Commander) or similar. Most nowadays MS Windows versions support CIFS.

use sudoers to grant permission to use mount command without entering password

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install cifs-utils && sudo apt-get clean

man 8 mount.cifs

mkdir ~/win
sudo mount -t cifs //myserver_ip_address/myshare ~/win -o username=samb_user,noexec,uid=user-uid,gid=user-gid

older machines: -t smbfs (currently deprecated -no longer maintained and pending removal from the kernel)

-o choices
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password=samb_pwd
credentials=/path/filename
username=value
password=value
domain=value
uid=user-uid (starting at 1000)
gid=user-gid (starting at 1000)
... using proper uid,gid will give also write permission for certain user
same share can be mount multiple times by different users

to see mounted systems by certain type:
mount -t cifs

/etc/fstab:
//myserver_ip_address/myshare  /media/samba_share  cifs  credentials=/etc/samba/user,noexec  0 0

sudo nano /etc/samba/user
username=value
password=value
domain=value
sudo chmod 0400 /etc/samba/user # permissions of 0400 = read only

option noauto in /etc/fstab mount options will cause not mount automatically:
//myserver_ip_address/myshare  /media/samba_share  cifs  noauto,credentials=/etc/samba/user,noexec  0 0

... then you can mount using:
sudo mount /media/samba_share
and unmount:
sudo umount /media/samba_share


MS Windows has also admin share:
C: has \\IP\c$

from Linux:
smbclient //server/c$ -U adminuser