samba - Apr 2007 - General question about 'smbclient'

As above,

 From what I understand (also obvious from the package name) is that 
'smbclient' is only a client.
You can browse shares or use it for troubleshooting. Does it have any 
affect on the actual samba server?

I mean does this package have to be installed in order for a samba 
server to work properly?

It seems to be that this package can be removed, I just want to make 
sure that it's not an important part of the samba server.

Thanks

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 09:56:05AM +0200, Andr? Jee
wrote:
> As above,
> 
> From what I understand (also obvious from the package name) is that 
> 'smbclient' is only a client.
> You can browse shares or use it for troubleshooting. Does it have any 
> affect on the actual samba server?
You can also use it to mount shares.
> 
> I mean does this package have to be installed in order for a samba 
> server to work properly?
No it does not need to be installed for samba to work.
> It seems to be that this package can be removed, I just want to make 
> sure that it's not an important part of the samba server.
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
Cheers,
Mark