Linux-specific technical problems

Bob Warren bobwarren at howsoft.com
Wed Mar 14 11:02:10 EDT 2007


Mark Wieder wrote:

 >

Well, for one, "mount" doesn't appear to be a valid command to
smbclient. You should try this in a shell window first, get it
working, then try it from rev. My guess is you'll also have to put
username%password info into the commandline as well. Try smbclient -?
for the available options.

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This is what I reported in my post on 18th February (see the "Samba lessons needed" thread):

In the Ubuntu terminal, the following works perfectly and I get a 
listing of my Windows drive:

smbclient \\\\john\\c mount
dir
(CTRL+Z exits Samba) - QUIT works too.

So if "mount" isn't a valid command, somebody had better tell smbclient!
Possibly, smbclient -? for the available options is out of date.

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 >Secondly, I don't really think smbclient is something that you'd want
running as a process, unless you've got something really wild in mind.
I'm not an expert on this by any means, but my understanding is that
"open process" is for something you want running in the background, as
on a server, as a daemon for other processes to communicate with. If
you just want to grab a directory listing or file off an smb server
then try the shell() function instead.
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No, all I want to do is to grab a directory listing off my smb server.

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 >put "smbclient \\\\john\\c -Wworkgroup -Uuser%password -cdir" into \
procToDo
put shell(procToDo) into field "test"
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Naturally, I tried SHELL first, but couldn't get it to work. Of course, 
the fact that I am almost entirely ignorant of how to do anything 
through the terminal probably doesn't help! (It smells too much like DOS 
for my taste.) Anyway, here goes with your suggested 
experiment.................:

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Domain=[JOHN] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager]
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        38170 blocks of size 2097152. 12445 blocks available

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Just to let you see the beauty of it, that's my drive listing. 
Congratulations!
(Try to ignor the various flavours of "shit" in the directories).
QED, and thank you very much indeed!

_________________________________
Hopefully, another technical wizard will be able to tell me whether it 
is possible or not to print Portuguese text from Rev/Linux 2.6.1. The 
question is simple enough anyway!

Jacque: It was indeed tempting to comment on the pun contained in your 
idea of trying to avoid "bugging" the Rev techies if possible, but at 
this stage of the proceedings I'm too afraid even to joke about it!

Bob






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