FTP & SAMBA FTP Sometimes anonymous login is allowed on a FTP server. ftp During the login you'll get asked to provide a user name and ther you just enter: anonymous SAMBA Access without username or password There are also some cases where you are allowed to login to an Samba share without username or password. To perform this follow these steps: smbclient //host/share -U % OR  smbclient //host/share -U " "%" " Access with password If you were able to get a password you cann access the SAMBA share like this: smbclient //host/share Then you'll get asked to enter the password. Download the whole Share You can download the whole samba share with following command: smbget –R smb:/// Everything which is stored on the specified share will get downloaded.