[olug] samba to windows share using UNC?
Ryan Stille
ryan at cfwebtools.com
Thu Jun 19 21:49:00 UTC 2008
Theodore Katseres wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Ryan Stille <ryan at cfwebtools.com> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to copy a file to a windows share, without mounting it as
>> a local file system first? I've used smbmount in the past, then copied
>> the file, but in this case I just want to copy it using a UNC path,
>> specifying the username/password on the command line.
>>
>> -Ryan
>>
>
> Without mounting try ...
>
> smbclient //server/share -U user%pass -c 'put file'
>
> where "file" is in your local machine's cwd.
>
>
Awesome, that worked. But my goal was to not take up space on the local
machine. I'm creating a 4GB file, and I'd rather place it directly on
the remote machine, rather than create it locally and then copy it.
Anyway to do that?
-Ryan
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