This is with SUSE's samba-3.0.21c-9. Currently, smbclient offers the option ls [pattern] I would like to see the option to support ls [options] [--] [pattern] with options to sort the output as the normal "ls" does in the shell. If one copies those options, one has: -r reverse order while sorting -S sort by file size -t sort by modification time [The one I really miss!] -X sort alphabetically by extension