[Samba] Is it possible to write an "smbclient" automated script

Eric Hines eehines at comcast.net
Fri Dec 23 12:48:45 GMT 2005


At 12/23/05 01:04, Beast wrote:
>Pablo Graziano wrote:
>>I'd like to write an automated smbclient script. Something simple, like:
>>login
>>cd to a certain directory
>>copy that entire directory to client
>>logout
>>Is this possible, and how?
>
>Why not use smbmount instead?
>
>smbmount //svr/share /mnt/samba -o username=myuser,password=mypasswd
>cp -r /mnt/samba/source /tmp/destination
>
>--beast

Wouldn't this transmit the password in the clear?

Eric Hines


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