command line samba to copy files

Deepak Shrestha d88pak at gmail.com
Sat Aug 19 15:37:14 UTC 2006


On 8/19/06, David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote:
> "Deepak Shrestha" <d88pak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I need some pointers on how to use samba from command line. My
> >specific problem is like this:
> >
> >I have been using KDE environment in linux most of the time. In this
> >GUI, I can use smb:/ then point to the machine then copy to/from files
> >between the machines. Now I want to know how to do that in command
> >line. Some help I got after research is to use the "smbclient" command
> >but when I use
> >$ smbclient //server/share
> >I can access that machine and can view the files but how do I copy
> >some file from there to my home directory or vice versa? I couldn't
> >find any command like "cp" or "mv" in samba prompt.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >
> smbclient uses a vernacualr that is similar to ftp.  Use "get" to copy
> files from the samba share to your local machine, "put" to copy files
> from your local machine to the samba share, cd to change directories on
> the server and lcd to change directory on the local machine.  There is a
> built in help function to smbclient:
>
> [dave at bend ~]# smbclient //mutilate/share
> Password:
> Domain=[DAVENJUDY] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.10-1.4E.6.2]
> smb: \> dir
>   .                                   D        0  Fri Jul 14 11:32:28 2006
>   ..                                  D        0  Tue Jul 25 16:48:12 2006
>   lost+found                          D        0  Mon May 26 15:42:40 2003
>   dave                                D        0  Tue Jul 25 12:52:52 2006
>   share1                              D        0  Fri Jul 18 22:09:51 2003
>   share2                              D        0  Wed May 17 15:52:13 2006
>   judy                                D        0  Wed Jul 12 08:00:27 2006
>   share4                              D        0  Wed May 17 15:57:41 2006
>   pcap                                D        0  Fri Jul 14 20:50:04 2006
>   iso                                 D        0  Wed Jul 12 23:29:24 2006
>   tgz                                 D        0  Wed May 17 16:02:09 2006
>   erik                                D        0  Sun Apr  3 12:13:43 2005
>
>                 36119 blocks of size 4194304. 16637 blocks available
> smb: \> help
> ?              altname        archive        blocksize      cancel
> case_sensitive cd             chmod          chown          del
> dir            du             exit           get            getfacl
> hardlink       help           history        lcd            link
> lowercase      ls             mask           md             mget
> mkdir          more           mput           newer          open
> print          prompt         put            pwd            q
> queue          quit           rd             recurse        reget
> rename         reput          rm             rmdir          setmode
> stat           symlink        tar            tarmode        translate
> volume         vuid           logon          listconnect    showconnect
> !
> smb: \>
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
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thanks  I got it now. "get" will solve my problem

Thanks!




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