accessing a samba network drive via the command line

[Kevin Kempter]

On Thursday 02 July 2009 09:41:47 Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> 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.
> --
>    Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it

Works perfectly !

Thanks for the advice