Inthispaper,wepresentasmoothingNewton-likemethodforsolvingnonlinearsystemsofequalitiesandinequalities.Byusingtheso-calledmaxfunction,wetransfertheinequalitiesintoasystemofsemismoothequalities.ThenasmoothingNewton-likemethodisproposedforsolvingthereformulatedsystem,whichonlyneedstosolveonesystemoflinearequationsandtoperformonelinesearchateachiteration.Theglobalandlocalquadraticconvergencearestudiedunderappropriateassumptions.Numericalexamplesshowthatthenewapproachiseffective.