smbclient Question

[tbohon]

I do a lot of ftp coding but am now faced with learning samba/smbclient since our new Win servers won't have ftp running on them. My source system (the one from which I'm trying to connect) is an AIX v5 box.

What I need to do is connect to a Win server using the smbclient version of the way I did it under ftp:

ftp -n <server IP> << EOF
user <username> <password>
cd <new directory.
put <file>
...
quit
EOF

I see in the man page for smbclient that I can use -c followed by a list of commands separated by semicolons and I suppose that would work it that's the only way - however, before I get that far I need to get the password to the smbclient and that's where I'm having problems right this minute. Latest version of my attempt:

smbclient \\<service> -U <username> <password>

Fails miserably.

Note that I also tried putting the <password> on a line under the smbclient call - basically replicating the ftp process above - also without success.

Until I can get some better docs on smbclient, does anyone have a quick way to replicate the ftp approach detailed above?

Tnx.

Tom

"My mind is like a steel whatchamacallit ...

 

[PHV]

-N -U 'username%password'

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[tbohon]

Thanks, PH - I was just logging back on to tell everyone that I'd figured that piece out.

Still looking for options to the

-c "a;b;c;quit"

thing, however. Not critical - I'm able to connect with the fix above so I can live with a single long (really long) line of args if I have to.

Thanks!

Tom

"My mind is like a steel whatchamacallit ...

 

[cdlvj]

This works from a unix system to Win32. u1.txt contains a list of files piped to cpio.


cat /u1.txt | cpio -ocavB | smbclient //192.168.101.201/windir -U userid%password -c 'put - u1files.cpio;q'

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

Have you considered smbmount?
You could cross mount the file system and just copy files to and fro whenever you need to.


Trojan.

 

[PHV]

For me, smbmount is only available with a Linux kernel ...

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[tbohon]

Thanks for the additional information. I'm not able to smbmount so unfortunately that won't work. I'll definitely try the file with file names provided that I can get the file name pattern.

In testing today (I was able to have my script connect and bring the test file over!) I was a bit confused when it asked me 'yes or no' on getting the file. Obviously there has to be a trick to feeding it a 'y' answer automagically ... right???

Here's the smbclient call:

smbclient <service> -U <user>%<password> -c "cd data\temp;mget *.rtf;quit"

What I need to be able to do is feed it a 'y' answer after it tries to mget each file (I'll have the file pattern that I'll actually be looking for, in this case there was only the test file so I was lazy).

Thoughts?

Tnx.

Tom

"My mind is like a steel whatchamacallit ...

 

[tbohon]

Think I figured it out. If I use prompt inside the command string right before the mget - just like I do in ftp scripts - it won't prompt me.

Thanks all!

Best,

Tom

"My mind is like a steel whatchamacallit ...