Linux download file over smb

Replacing server with the name or IP address of the machine running your Samba server. A Windows Explorer window with the browseable shares from your server should open up. Is is easy to make shared directories more accessible. In my testing on Windows XP with the security level set to share , printers are automatically be detected and available to use from the Windows machine.

With user level security set, it was necessary to log into the server in a Windows Explorer window before trying to print. Your experience on other versions of Windows may vary. Samba and Windows shares can be easily accessed from the default file managers of both Gnome and KDE. Accessing Samba shares with Konqueror is just as simple. For direct access, type the URL of the server in directly in this format:. Configuring printers over Samba is similarly easy in both these desktop environments.

You will be prompted for your password. You will be prompted for a user name and password on your Samba server. Identify your Host and Printer on the Samba server and then move on to the next screen. Select your printer model and then click Apply. To do the same in KDE, open the configuration center by launching the command kcontrol.

Click Next another time and then Scan to browse for your Samba server. Alternatively, enter the server details manually. On the next screen, select your printer model from the list. Click through the next few screens and give your networked printer a title to finish up.

Thanks anyway though! Show 3 more comments. Can I use curl --upload-file and create a new directory on samba? Matthias Braun 6, 6 6 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 43 43 bronze badges. Jack Belowzerooff Jack Belowzerooff 21 1 1 bronze badge. Archemar Dinanath Parit Dinanath Parit 11 2 2 bronze badges. Another way if the share is already mounted by fuse If you are running some desktop with shares already mounted by nautilus , caja or any other file manager , you could be using fuse instead of smbclient.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Need to download multiple files? Follow the command structure shown below. Curl allows you to limit the download speed. Here, the download speed is limited to 1mb. It is also possible to manage an FTP server using curl.

Downloading files from an FTP server is like the method shown before. However, assuming the FTP server requires user authentication, use the following command structure:. In certain situations, the URL that you are trying to access may be blocked due to a lack of a proper user agent. Curl allows you to define the user agent manually. As for the user agent, you can use the User Agents randomizer. If you want a custom user agent, then you can find one from WhatIsMyBrowser.

Despite it being a simple and lightweight tool, curl offers tons of features. Also the upload can be started with the mput command. Files and folders can be also downloaded with the mget command. If there are multiple files and folders to download the recursive mode should be enabled with the recurse command. Like a local file and folder the SMB shared files and folders have different attributes.

These attributes can be size, permissions, NTFS attributes etc. The files and folders attributes can be listed with the allinfo command by specifiying the file name. The smbclient try to connect remote windows share service which runs over SMB ports. The service may not not running or firewall blocks access to this services or there is a network problem.