smb help

depam · 10-25-2005, 01:15 AM

Need help..

I need to copy files from my linux box to my windows server automatically using smbclient and cron

I wrote this script :

smbclient '\\dir1\dir2' -U uname%passwd
recurse
prompt
mput *

But I can't figure out why it does not copy the files to the remote Windows server when I execute the script. Do you know any script that can do this? Or any command?

Hope you can help me.

Brian1 · 10-29-2005, 05:47 PM

If you use each of those commands from a terminal session in that order, does it work fine?

If that is the contents of your script then does it have #!/bin/bash or similiar at the beggining?
Also is the script executable?

Brian1

depam · 10-31-2005, 04:10 AM

yup. I tried the smbclient '\\path\dir2' -U username%password

It prompt me with a
smb:>

It works fine when I type in recurse, prompt and copy a file.

But in a script it does not copy the files but only prompt the

smb:>

Yes, it is executable.

Brian1 · 10-31-2005, 04:20 PM

A few other thoughts.
Does the commands require root to run and you are using the script as a user?
So the script does run an completes, but does not do what it needed to do?

You might need to pause between the commands. This might be over kill but you might try this. Either use the sleep command or use the universal pause. I usually use this as a pause ' ping -c2 127.0.0.1 > /dev/null '. Also don't you need something like #!/bin/bash at the beginning of the script.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
smbclient '\\dir1\dir2' -U uname%passwd
sleep 2s
recurse
sleep 2s
prompt
sleep 2s
mput *

Code:

#!/bin/bash
smbclient '\\dir1\dir2' -U uname%passwd
ping -c2 127.0.0.1 > /dev/null 
recurse
ping -c2 127.0.0.1 > /dev/null 
prompt
ping -c2 127.0.0.1 > /dev/null 
mput *

See if this helps.
Brian1