Accessing a windows shared folder from Linux?

Question

I am trying to copy a (.html) file from a Windows XP Professional shared folder onto a server running Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS.

As it's a shared folder the usual 'wget' doesn't seem to work. I suspect I'm using the wrong address style completely.

I have tried:

1. http://192.168.1.66/SharedFolder/Data.html
2. //192.168.1.66/SharedFolder/Data.html
3. smb://192.168.1.66/SharedFolder/Data.html
4. //192.168.1.66/SharedFolder/Data.html
5. 192.168.1.66/SharedFolder/Data.html

I wondered if this is even possible and if it is, could someone give me some pointers?

I've successfully pinged the Windows box from Ubuntu:

# ping 192.168.1.66 PING 192.168.1.66 (192.168.1.66) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.66: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.412 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.66: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.557 ms (DUP!) 64 bytes from 192.168.1.66: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.243 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.66: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=0.251 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.66: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=0.266 ms 

and I can access the Windows share from every other computer on the network, however, they are all running Windows XP Professional aswell. I'm not sure if it's a problem between Ubuntu and Windows shares in general or just that my URL style is wrong.

Answer 1

If you want to use the GUI, try clicking Places -> Connect to Server.... For Service Type choose Windows share, and fill out the fields like so:

Server: 192.168.1.66 Share: SharedFolder 

Then download your file from the window. If you want to use a command-line interface, smbclient uses a FTP-like interface (get, put, etc.):

~$ smbclient //192.168.1.66/SharedFolder Password: smb: \> get Data.html 

Alternatively, you could mount the share as a CIFS filesystem: (First, ensure that cifs-utils is installed)

~$ sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.66/SharedFolder /mnt 

If your share requires authentication, provide the username to smbclient with the -U option, or to mount with -o user=username