smbclient can be used similar to ftp. This is very helpful for a one-time access of a
windows pc. "man smbclient" for more details.
For example:
smbclient //janani/C -I 172.31.41.171
Added interface ip=172.31.41.174 bcast=172.31.41.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
Password:
smb: \> ? dir
HELP dir:
<mask> list the contents of the current directory
smb: \> cd sk
smb: \sk\> dir
. D 0 Tue Feb 1 15:16:58 2000
.. D 0 Tue Feb 1 15:16:58 2000
Normal.dot A 27136 Mon Dec 20 16:02:24 1999
kernelm.doc A 78848 Tue Mar 21 12:25:00 2000
kernels.doc A 2967040 Thu Mar 30 15:54:08 2000
.
.
65501 blocks of size 16384. 8129 blocks available
smb: \sk\> ?
ls dir du lcd cd
pwd get mget put mput
.
.
smb: \sk\> get readme.txt
getting file readme.txt of size 9367 as readme.txt (175.912 kb/s) (average 175.913
kb/s)
smb: \sk\>
On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 03:12:21PM +0530, Sateesh Potturu wrote:
> Here is how I access files on a windows pc
>
> mkdir /home/abcd
> smbmount //abcd/C /home/abcd
> If the share C on windows pc \\abcd has password, smbmount will ask you for
>password. That's all. Now I can access the files through /home/abcd.
>
> My smbmount version is 1.0.5a. There were lot of problems with earlier versions.
>
> Regards,
> Sateesh.
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 01:12:40AM +0530, Soumyanath Chatterjee wrote:
> > Dr.S.Sekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was found saying
> > > I have the IP address of a networked pc working on Windows.
> > > I wish to transfer a file from that pc to my linux pc.
> > > Pl give me a lead as to how to do this.
> >
> > Sitting on Linux machine and accessing a file on Win machine is the problem.
> > If your machine is on the same network then I think you can simply *rcp* the
> > file. But then I think remote administration option should be enabled on
> > your win machine.
> >
> > man rcp for further details.
> >
> > I am no expert on this and do not have any win-lin network. Experts pl.
> > correct me if I am wrong.
> >
> > -Soumya
> >
> >
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