smbget

Name

smbget — wget-like utility for download files over SMB

Synopsis

smbget [-a, --guest] [-r, --resume] [-R, --recursive] [-u, --username=STRING] [-p, --password=STRING] [-w, --workgroup=STRING] [-n, --nonprompt] [-d, --debuglevel=INT] [-D, --dots] [-P, --keep-permissions] [-o, --outputfile] [-f, --rcfile] [-q, --quiet] [-v, --verbose] [-b, --blocksize] [-?, --help] [--usage] {smb://host/share/path/to/file} [smb://url2/] [...]

DESCRIPTION

This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.

smbget is a simple utility with wget-like semantics, that can download files from SMB servers. You can specify the files you would like to download on the command-line. +

+ The files should be in the smb-URL standard, e.g. use smb://host/share/file + for the UNC path \\\\HOST\\SHARE\\file. +

OPTIONS

-a, --guest

Work as user guest

-r, --resume

Automatically resume aborted files

-R, --recursive

Recursively download files

-u, --username=STRING

Username to use

-p, --password=STRING

Password to use

-w, --workgroup=STRING

Workgroup to use (optional)

-n, --nonprompt

Don't ask anything (non-interactive)

-d, --debuglevel=INT

Debuglevel to use

-D, --dots

Show dots as progress indication

-P, --keep-permissions

Set same permissions on local file as are set on remote file.

-o, --outputfile

Write the file that is being download to the specified file. Can not be used together with -R.

-f, --rcfile

Use specified rcfile. This will be loaded in the order it was specified - e.g. if you specify any options before this one, they might get overriden by the contents of the rcfile.

-q, --quiet

Be quiet

-v, --verbose

Be verbose

-b, --blocksize

Number of bytes to download in a block. Defaults to 64000.

-?, --help

Show help message

--usage

Display brief usage message

SMB URLS

SMB URL's should be specified in the following format:

+smb://[[[domain;]user[:password@]]server[/share[/path[/file]]]]
+

+smb:// means all the workgroups
+

+smb://name/ means, if name is a workgroup, all the servers in this workgroup, or if name is a server, all the shares on this server.
+

EXAMPLES

+# Recursively download 'src' directory
+smbget -R smb://rhonwyn/jelmer/src
+# Download FreeBSD ISO and enable resuming
+smbget -r smb://rhonwyn/isos/FreeBSD5.1.iso
+# Recursively download all ISOs
+smbget -Rr smb://rhonwyn/isos
+# Backup my data on rhonwyn
+smbget -Rr smb://rhonwyn/
+

BUGS

Permission denied is returned in some cases where the cause of the error is unknown +(such as an illegally formatted smb:// url or trying to get a directory without -R +turned on).

VERSION

This man page is correct for version 3.0 of + the Samba suite.

AUTHOR

The original Samba software and related utilities + were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed + by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar + to the way the Linux kernel is developed.

The smbget manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.