accessing samba folder in terminal
Jason Crain
jason at bluetree.ath.cx
Thu Jan 8 13:16:39 UTC 2009
On Thu, January 8, 2009 6:52 am, Kevin wrote:
> Could someone please advise how to access a samba folder in a terminal?
> I am able to access smb://windows_box/folder on my Ubuntu 8.10 box by GUI
> (Firefox and Nautilus) now and wonder how to move files between the
> Ubuntu box and the windows_box in a terminal using a script? Thank you.
Gnome uses gvfs to access windows shares. You can access the files under
~/.gvfs. If you don't see "folder on windows_box" under that directory,
you can mount it with "gvfs-mount smb://windows_box/folder". And there
are a lot of other gvfs-* commands you can try.
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