Sorry if this is a bit of a basic question but I have searched and can’t seem to find an answer anywhere.
Can anyone tell me how to refer to a file on a Samba client share in a command prompt.
\Machine\Share\Filename doesn’t seem to work.
Thanks,
Nick
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For what purpose, exactly? You need to somehow tell the system you’re
using SMB, and a couple of backslashes is not going to do it since those
are just characters. I would look into smbmount (mount the share
somewhere and then access it normally) or smbclient to make a
connection. Once connected (either by mounting the share or with the
smbclient connection, which works a lot like sftp or ftp from the
command line) you can interact normally as if you are on the share directly.
smbclient example
smbclient -U Administrator//nts25.lab.novell.com/c\$
Password:
smb: \> ls
$Recycle.Bin DHS 0 Thu Apr 19 14:05:08 2012
Config.Msi DHS 0 Thu Apr 19 13:46:37 2012
Documents and Settings DHS 0 Mon Jul 13 23:06:44 2009
pagefile.sys AHS 8128 Fri Apr 20 03:16:01 2012
PerfLogs D 0 Mon Jul 13 21:20:08 2009
Program Files DR 0 Thu Apr 19 15:58:14 2012
Program Files (x86) DR 0 Thu Apr 19 15:58:25 2012
ProgramData DH 0 Fri Apr 20 03:17:39 2012
Recovery DHS 0 Thu Apr 19 14:04:35 2012
System Volume Information DHS 0 Thu Apr 19 15:58:53 2012
Users DR 0 Thu Apr 19 14:04:53 2012
Windows D 0 Thu Apr 19 16:04:47 2012
44706 blocks of size 16777216. 43298 blocks available
smb: \> exit
Good luck.
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Well the actual purpose I had in mind was as part of a qemu-img convert line, I just wanted to read the source .vhd file directly over the smb network from the other server.
For an example lets simplify by using a copy command as an example:
cp \Machine\Share\myFile.txt myfile.txt
doesn’t work
Should I be doing something like:
cp smb:\Machine\Share\myFile.txt myfile.txt
Nick
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Mount it (the share) first, then use the command from the mountpoint.
That will be easiest, use the least amount of space locally (assuming
you do not want to copy it locally before doing something with it).
Something like:
mount -t cifs //serverhere/share /mnt
Good luck.
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On 2012-04-20 16:12, ab wrote:
> For what purpose, exactly? You need to somehow tell the system you’re
> using SMB, and a couple of backslashes is not going to do it since those
> are just characters. I would look into smbmount (mount the share
> somewhere and then access it normally)
I don’t see “smbmount” anywhere :-?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 04/20/2012 03:13 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2012-04-20 16:12, ab wrote:
>> For what purpose, exactly? You need to somehow tell the system you’re
>> using SMB, and a couple of backslashes is not going to do it since those
>> are just characters. I would look into smbmount (mount the share
>> somewhere and then access it normally)
>
> I don’t see “smbmount” anywhere :-?
When smbfs got renamed to cifs, it went away. Now you use “mount -t cifs”, or
“mount.cifs”.
Tried that but get:
mount error: could not resolve address for servername: unknown error
smbtree lists the server share correctly.
You need to replace servername with the name or ip address of your server 
Probably You want to replace share with the name of your share as well.
Best regards,
Greg
Yes I have, actual command used is:
mount -t cifs //Host1/Data /mnt
Please try with the ip address or edit your /etc/nsswitch.conf so that your system will use WINS name resolution.
Add wins to this line :
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
Best regards,
Greg