accessing a samba network drive via the command line

[Roberto Ragusa]

Kevin Kempter wrote:
> One more question:
> is there a way via smbclient to execute the equivelant of a "find . | wc -l" ? 
> I'm wanting a count of how many files I have on the drive, including all dirs 
> and sub-dirs.

You can mount the filesystem and use all the Unix tools you need.
Something like:

  mkdir /mnt/raw
  mount 192.168.1.30:raw /mnt/raw -t cifs

(a lot of possibly useful extra options in the mount manpage,
such as "-o guest", "-o ro")

Best regards.
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   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it