Copy files from Unix host to Windows host with Samba 2.0 ?

John Wright john at dryfish.org
Wed Apr 11 15:16:41 GMT 2001


You know.  smbclient has accepted //server/share for quite a while now. :)

BFN.

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:51:17AM -0400, MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1) wrote:
> Hello Brian,
> I think you have a syntax problem there;
> Try:
> 
> smbclient \\\\servername\\sharename
> 
> the command you used:
> 
> smbclient \\\\\\servername
> 
> parsed the first two sets of \\\\ and expects the servername there, then
> after the next \\ expects the sharename ON that server; thats why it
> reported 
> that connection to " " failed - basically you didn't give him a servername
> to 
> attach to...
> Hope this helps,
> Don




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