Accessing windows/samba from a cli

[Auisce]

I hope I'm not dragging up an old topic but...

I'm writing a script which needs to cp a file from a windows computer so I need to know how to access a samba dir from the cli.
cd smb://... doesn't work "No such file or directory".
What am I doing wrong?

[sky]

Re: Accessing windows/samba from a cli

Hi,

I don't think you can move to a samba share like this, for me or you have to mount it as a folder :
- mount -t smb //ip/folder /mount_point
and then go through this
- Or you have to use smbclient command

Hope it helps

[Auisce]

Re: Accessing windows/samba from a cli

Thanks. I still need to work this out properly but for now I've found a work around using a symlink.


EDIT hmm, maybe a symlink is a better solution anyway?