It's possible in linux to connect to a windows share. A command like the following would do the trick.
mount -t smbfs //your_server.full.path/share /mnt/point -o workgroup=your_workgroup,username=a_username,password=read_only_password Then you can load the images from /mnt/point. On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 07:53 -0800, David Schuster wrote: > I also see this line in the .pl file > > ##example -- > perl loadimages.pl -i IDLINK.txt -l image.log -d > "/home/pisd/dataload/pics/" > > so if there was a way to link the the sharefile and not actually scp the > files over that would be way cool. > > > David Schuster wrote: > > > > I have 53,000 students and a windows server in another building that I > > have a fileshare to. What would be the recommended way to copy those > > files over and load them into Koha? > > > > I have tried scp * but the problem is that it only copies what 2000 at a > > time and then dies. > > > > I'm a librarian looking for an easy solution without lots of programming. > > > > So here was my thought: > > > > build a cron > > first make the fileshare connection > > then issue several scp statements to copy the files over to the local > > server > > then issue the command to batch load them > > > > I have a command line utility that someone gave me to batch load pictures. > > I'll find someone to send it to for testing with 3.2. Next task... > > > > Thoughts? Comments - is there an easier way? > > > > manually I have copied the files over and run this command to load them I > > believe the utility is assuming the files are in the same directory: > > > > ./loadimages.sh - which issues perl loadimages.pl -i IDLINK.txt -l > > image.log > > > > from the loadimages.pl file - > > > > my(%count,$input_file,$error_file,$log_file,$sepchar,$imagedirectory); > > $imagedirectory = ""; > > > > > -- Michael Hafen Systems Analyst and Programmer Washington County School District Utah, USA for Koha checkout http://development.washk12.org/gitweb/ or git://development.washk12.org/koha _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel