[H-GEN] Copying a file to a NT box

[Sarah Hollings]

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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:40, Paul Clarke wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> I am getting further down the track with my printer log problem, thanks
> Mark and others for your suggestions the wget works great. I now have a
> collection of file on the debian server but I want to automatically copy
> them to a windows share.
>
> Now how can I copy a file to a share on an NT box?
>
> Something like cp test.txt \\192.68.01\SharedDocs\test.txt (which
> doesn't work it only creates a file on the linux box) that will copy
> test.txt to the NT share.

If you have samba something like
mount -t smbfs -o username=<nt user>,password=foobar //192.68.0.1/SharedDocs 
/mnt
(note that this should all be on one line)
will mount the windows share on /mnt on the Linux box.  Then you can use:
cp test.txt /mnt/test.txt

If you want to set this up to happen automatically somehow, its probably 
better do use something like:

smbclient //192.68.0.1/SharedDocs <foobar> -U <nt user> -c "put test.txt"

might be better - you can put the auth info in a 0600 file somewhere out of 
harms way and specify it with -A if you're going to run this from a cron job.
man smbclient for more
>
> Thanks
> Paul.
>
> Site Dynamics - Paul Clarke
> paul at qfm.org.au
> 0414 367 747

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