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Topic: How to Copy Files From WinXP rig on network

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Posted: Feb. 18 2006,05:45

Hello. I have DSL installed on a laptop, and I am trying to access a file stored on a Windows XP machine that is on my network. I can see it by running SMBtree, but I don't know how to access it using DSL. Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

larkl

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Posted: Feb. 18 2006,12:11

I think I can help with a text option. If you have the folder shared in XP, you should be able to get to it using smbclient. Try this in Xterminal:

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smbclient //pcname/sharename -Uusername%password

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I use a script with the following to copy (backup) everything from XP to DSL:

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smbclient //pcname/sharename -Uusername%password -c "lowercase; prompt;recurse;mask *;mget *"

This would copy everything with subfolders to whatever location you were in when you ran the script. All the stuff in quotes tellls it to ignore casing, turn off prompting for every file, recurse through sub-folder, and get everything.

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