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i use smbclient. after logging in into smb prompt i can use mkdir command in windows share, but why i cannot use mget & mput, no error message appear. i type help in smb prompt, there is no put & get command, there's only mget & mput. but why i can not use it...?
please enlightent me....
Hi mput and mget are FTP commands. Samba just allows you to look at a directory/folder as though it were on the machine you are using. You are mixing up commands and connections.
so, you meant i can not download and upload file with smbclient command?
how about the "put" & "get" command? i read in other books, they use put & get, but even those commands isn't available when i typed "help" in smbclient prompt, i had only got mput and mget.
As he said, you are confusing a connection tool (ftp) that uses (m)put/(m(get) with a remote mounting tool ie Samba, which makes the remote disk appear to be locally mounted, so you just use the usual 'cp' cmd.
I believe the MS equiv is Network Neighbourhood (?)
Samba is similar to NFS, except it uses an MS protocol (CIFS)
As he said, you are confusing a connection tool (ftp) that uses (m)put/(m(get) with a remote mounting tool ie Samba, which makes the remote disk appear to be locally mounted, so you just use the usual 'cp' cmd.
I believe the MS equiv is Network Neighbourhood (?)
Samba is similar to NFS, except it uses an MS protocol (CIFS)
Actually, I think its you that's confusing samba with smbclient (pretty much an ftplike samba... er client!)
I'm having the exact same problems with it. I can connect to my samba share ok, dir works but cannot use mput, lcd also doesn't seem to report local directory either. Can anyone help
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