Copy to smb share

[Tom Ostlund]

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Under properties the folder does show up as cifs but when you hover in
nautilus is shows smb.

I have tried to add it to fstab but when I try to mount it I get a
message that tells me that it can not find it in fstab or mtab



On 05/14/2011 07:05 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> James way works well if you only have to do this once.
> 
> If you want to copy files to the smb share regularly (I would assume that given the uri you specify), then installing smbfs (e.g. apt-get install smbfs) and mounting the smb share on a convenient directory (e.g. mount -t smbfs //my-airport-extreme.local/drobo/folder/ /home/shares/drobo/folder/) makes the share part of your file system.
> Once you have the share mounted, it's  as simple as "cp somefile.ext /home/shares/drobo/folder/".
> 
> Once you have it mounted and working, don't forget to add it to /etc/fstab so it's mounted by the system when you're connected to the home network:
>     *example* line for /etc/fstab, note the uid and gid parameters, which should be your user uid/gid to make access easy.
> //my-airport-extreme.local/drobo/folder/    /home/shares/drobo/folder/    smbfs    file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755,uid=####,gid=####,credentials=/etc/my-drobo-user.creds,rw    0    2
> 
> The file "/etc/my-drobo-user.creds" is needed if the share requires a username/password and you're not running a Domain Controller or Active Directory service on the network.
> This credentials file is owned root:root and file mode 400 for security; it contains the user/password/workgroup for your drobo share in plain text:
> username=SOMETHING
> password=SOMETHING
> workgroup=SOMETHING
> 
> I know that's not the safest thing in the world, but I find it works well enough for most home users.
> 
> Once that's there, if you find it's not connected, then you can just "sudo mount /home/shares/drobo/folder/" to re-establish the connection.
> 
> 
> On 05/14/2011 06:26 PM, James Mcphee wrote:
>> Unless you've already connected to the smb share, you won't be able to
>> access it.  You could try smbclient, and do a put.  I'm sure there are other
>> ways, but that's the quickest to script.  Soooooo wrong from a security
>> perspective, but eh.
>>
>> smbclient //target/share password -W domain -u user <<ENDEND
>>> cd path
>>> put file
>>> ENDEND
>>
>> Something like that.
>>
>> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Tom Ostlund <tom at ostlundgroup.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello All.
>>
>> I am trying to figure out how to copy a file to a smb share from the
>> command line.
>>
>> The share is
>>
>> smb://my-airport-extreme.local/drobo/folder/
>>
>> my way is failing
>>
>> cp test.txt smb://my-airport-extreme.local/drobo/folder/test.txt
>>
>> What is the right way to do this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>>
>> Mesa AZ
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