On Sat, 2016-07-09 at 11:59 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jul 2016, John Meissen wrote: > > > That's because 'cp' doesn't understand URL-style paths. 'cp' only deals > > with local filesystems. If you want to use 'cp' you'll have to mount the > > remote filesystem locally. > > Doesn't smb, like nfs, make the remote partitions accessible like local > partitions? It's been about a decade since I had nfs partitions on a > separate server, but it seems to me that I could cd, cp, and otherwise treat > them like those on the local workstation.
NFS, sure, because they generally get mounted explicitly in /etc/fstab or similar. I think that's an extra step that is missing here *if* the original poster wants to use simple operations like 'cp' -- as noted, that only works on locally-mounted file systems. However, what the original poster really wants to do doesn't depend on opening that particular can of worms. He should concentrate on figuring out the right rsync command (shouldn't be that hard) or the right scp command (as also mentioned earlier). _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
