Smbclient cannot use Mget & Mput

s1ddh4rta · 08-15-2007, 11:40 PM

Dear All,

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....

many thanks in advance.

S1D

michaelsr · 08-17-2007, 10:06 AM

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.

Hope this helps,

Michael.

s1ddh4rta · 08-19-2007, 09:37 PM

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.

need explanation here....

thanks in advance man...

chrism01 · 08-19-2007, 10:22 PM

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)

bartoni · 03-06-2009, 08:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrism01

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