smbclient copy from linux to windows (SMB)

Question

Want to copy directory from linux machine to windows (SMB) with shell script.

[user@host home]$ smbclient -W WORKGROUP --user='admin%admin$123' -c "put /data/directory" "//192.168.1.1/share"
Domain=[mydomain] OS=[Windows Server] Server=[Windows Server]
/data/directory does not exist
[user@host home]$ cd /data/directory
/data/directory
[user@host directory]$ ll
File1
File2
..

Here is the issues:

• Not accept password even when I use (-N)

• even try this --user=admin%admin$123

When I remove password from command and shell ask me password it works!

FYI: for transferring directory between Windows and Linux I read about curl, and SSH daemon on windows for scp, do you have any recommendation or simple way, without require additional service on Windows or package on Linux?

Answer 1

If you want to copy /data/directory on Linux so that a copy of it will appear as \\192.168.1.1\share\directory on Windows, then perhaps this command should do the job:

smbclient -W WORKGROUP --user='admin%admin$123' -c "lcd /data;recurse;mput directory" "//192.168.1.1/share"

Rationale:

• to copy a directory with its contents, you'll need to enable recursion with recurse and use mput as you will be copying multiple files. The regular put command will only transfer one file at a time, optionally giving the copy a different name at the destination.
• by first using lcd, the recursion is limited so that the copy won't become \\192.168.1.1\share\data\directory but just \\192.168.1.1\share\directory