You need to prove a firewall rule is allowing SMB traffic. You set up a v13 listener on port 445 on your laptop, run a connection test from the server, and the GUI logs the exact handshake. You screenshot the "Connection Established" dialog for your compliance report. Done.
While legitimate GUI wrappers have existed in the past—such as Netcat for Windows ports or simple frontend scripts—they are often:
For power users, Version 13 allows you to record and replay sequences of commands. Need to automatically greet a connected client? Just record the macro once, and let the GUI handle the rest.