access samba files from commandline

[wbloos]

Hi,

Is it possible to access smb files from bash?
for example i would like to run:
file smb://server/dir/file.ext

I get the "No such file or directory" error.

thx,

WBL

[kramulous]

There could be an easier way, but I'd firstly mount the samba share by:

sudo mkdir /media/server_dir

sudo mount //server/dir /media/server_dir/ -t cifs -o
user=[sambashare_username],uid=[localmachine username]

Then you can change to /media/server_dir and do whatever.

unmount by:

sudo umount /media/server_dir

Is this what you were after?

[wbloos]

yes it is!
Had to install smbfs (or the samba package)

sudo apt-get install smbfs

After that, tyhe mount.cifs manpage is also available, indeed specifying the options you gave me, and more.

man mount.cifs

thanks!
WBL