Re: smbclient question.
You could use smbmount //smb_name/share mountpoint -o username=<>,
password=<> ...
Of course if you don't have root access or smbmount isn't suid then this
method won't work.
Greg
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Friedrich wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wish to use smbclient to backup some windows shares onto a Linux box. Now this will be run in a
> script so I sould like to have it not prompt for anything. So far I can get it to retrieve a single
> file without prompting with this command :
>
> smbclient //server/share -U user%password -c "cd location\of\data;get file1.txt"
>
> but if I use :
>
> smbclient //server/share -U user%password -c "cd location\of\data;mget *"
>
> Then is says :
>
> Get file file1.txt?
>
> and this will then stop it from working in a script that is a cronjob. Any ideas on how I can get
> it to just get the files and not ask anything?
>
> Thanks, Friedrich.
>
>
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