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3 <refentry id="smbget.1">
4
5 <refmeta>
6         <refentrytitle>smbget</refentrytitle>
7         <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
8         <refmiscinfo class="source">Samba</refmiscinfo>
9         <refmiscinfo class="manual">User Commands</refmiscinfo>
10         <refmiscinfo class="version">4.1</refmiscinfo>
11 </refmeta>
12
13
14 <refnamediv>
15         <refname>smbget</refname>
16         <refpurpose>wget-like utility for download files over SMB</refpurpose>
17 </refnamediv>
18
19 <refsynopsisdiv>
20         <cmdsynopsis>
21                 <command>smbget</command>
22                 <arg choice="opt">-a, --guest</arg>
23                 <arg choice="opt">-r, --resume</arg>
24                 <arg choice="opt">-R, --recursive</arg>
25                 <arg choice="opt">-u, --username=STRING</arg>
26                 <arg choice="opt">-p, --password=STRING</arg>
27                 <arg choice="opt">-w, --workgroup=STRING</arg>
28                 <arg choice="opt">-n, --nonprompt</arg>
29                 <arg choice="opt">-d, --debuglevel=INT</arg>
30                 <arg choice="opt">-D, --dots</arg>
31                 <arg choice="opt">-P, --keep-permissions</arg>
32                 <arg choice="opt">-o, --outputfile</arg>
33                 <arg choice="opt">-f, --rcfile</arg>
34                 <arg choice="opt">-q, --quiet</arg>
35                 <arg choice="opt">-v, --verbose</arg>
36                 <arg choice="opt">-b, --blocksize</arg>
37                 <arg choice="opt">-O, --stdout</arg>
38                 <arg choice="opt">-?, --help</arg>
39                 <arg choice="opt">--usage</arg>
40                 <arg choice="req">smb://host/share/path/to/file</arg>
41                 <arg choice="opt">smb://url2/</arg>
42                 <arg choice="opt">...</arg>
43         </cmdsynopsis>
44 </refsynopsisdiv>
45
46 <refsect1>
47         <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
48
49         <para>This tool is part of the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>samba</refentrytitle>
50         <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry> suite.</para>
51
52         <para>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. 
53         </para>
54
55         <para>
56                 The files should be in the smb-URL standard, e.g. use smb://host/share/file
57                 for the UNC path <emphasis>\\\\HOST\\SHARE\\file</emphasis>.
58         </para>
59 </refsect1>
60
61 <refsect1>
62         <title>OPTIONS</title>
63
64         <varlistentry>
65                 <term>-a, --guest</term>
66                 <listitem><para>Work as user guest</para></listitem>
67         </varlistentry>
68
69         <varlistentry>
70                 <term>-r, --resume</term>
71                 <listitem><para>Automatically resume aborted files</para></listitem>
72         </varlistentry>
73
74         <varlistentry>
75                 <term>-R, --recursive</term>
76                 <listitem><para>Recursively download files</para></listitem>
77         </varlistentry>
78
79         <varlistentry>
80                 <term>-u, --username=STRING</term>
81                 <listitem><para>Username to use</para></listitem>
82         </varlistentry>
83
84         <varlistentry>
85                 <term>-p, --password=STRING</term>
86                 <listitem><para>Password to use</para></listitem>
87         </varlistentry>
88
89         <varlistentry>
90                 <term>-w, --workgroup=STRING</term>
91                 <listitem><para>Workgroup to use (optional)</para></listitem>
92         </varlistentry>
93
94         <varlistentry>
95                 <term>-n, --nonprompt</term>
96                 <listitem><para>Don't ask anything (non-interactive)</para></listitem>
97         </varlistentry>
98
99         <varlistentry>
100                 <term>-d, --debuglevel=INT</term>
101                 <listitem><para>Debuglevel to use</para></listitem>
102         </varlistentry>
103
104         <varlistentry>
105                 <term>-D, --dots</term>
106                 <listitem><para>Show dots as progress indication</para></listitem>
107         </varlistentry>
108
109         <varlistentry>
110                 <term>-P, --keep-permissions</term>
111                 <listitem><para>Set same permissions on local file as are set on remote file.</para></listitem>
112         </varlistentry>
113
114         <varlistentry>
115                 <term>-o, --outputfile</term>
116                 <listitem><para>Write the file that is being downloaded to the specified file. Can not be used together with -R.</para></listitem>
117         </varlistentry>
118
119         <varlistentry>
120                 <term>-O, --stdout</term>
121                 <listitem><para>Write the file that is being downloaded to standard output.</para></listitem>
122         </varlistentry>
123
124         <varlistentry>
125                 <term>-f, --rcfile</term>
126                 <listitem><para>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 overridden by the contents of the rcfile.</para></listitem>
127         </varlistentry>
128
129         <varlistentry>
130                 <term>-q, --quiet</term>
131                 <listitem><para>Be quiet</para></listitem>
132         </varlistentry>
133
134         <varlistentry>
135                 <term>-v, --verbose</term>
136                 <listitem><para>Be verbose</para></listitem>
137         </varlistentry>
138
139         <varlistentry>
140                 <term>-b, --blocksize</term>
141                 <listitem><para>Number of bytes to download in a block. Defaults to 64000.</para></listitem>
142         </varlistentry>
143
144         <varlistentry>
145                 <term>-?, --help</term>
146                 <listitem><para>Show help message</para></listitem>
147         </varlistentry>
148
149         <varlistentry>
150                 <term>--usage</term>
151                 <listitem><para>Display brief usage message</para></listitem>
152         </varlistentry>
153 </refsect1>
154
155 <refsect1>
156         <title>SMB URLS</title>
157
158         <para> SMB URL's should be specified in the following format:</para>
159
160         <para><programlisting>
161 smb://[[[domain;]user[:password@]]server[/share[/path[/file]]]]
162 </programlisting></para>
163
164 <para><programlisting>
165 smb:// means all the workgroups
166 </programlisting></para>
167
168 <para><programlisting>
169 smb://name/ means, if <replaceable>name</replaceable> is a workgroup, all the servers in this workgroup, or if <replaceable>name</replaceable> is a server, all the shares on this server.
170 </programlisting></para>
171
172 </refsect1>
173
174 <refsect1>
175         <title>EXAMPLES</title>
176         
177 <programlisting>
178 # Recursively download 'src' directory
179 smbget -R smb://rhonwyn/jelmer/src
180 # Download FreeBSD ISO and enable resuming
181 smbget -r smb://rhonwyn/isos/FreeBSD5.1.iso
182 # Recursively download all ISOs
183 smbget -Rr smb://rhonwyn/isos
184 # Backup my data on rhonwyn
185 smbget -Rr smb://rhonwyn/
186 </programlisting>
187
188 </refsect1>
189
190 <refsect1>
191         <title>BUGS</title>
192
193         <para>Permission denied is returned in some cases where the cause of the error is unknown 
194 (such as an illegally formatted smb:// url or trying to get a directory without -R 
195 turned on).</para>
196 </refsect1>
197
198 <refsect1>
199         <title>VERSION</title>
200
201         <para>This man page is correct for version 3 of 
202         the Samba suite.</para>
203 </refsect1>
204
205 <refsect1>
206         <title>AUTHOR</title>
207         
208         <para>The original Samba software and related utilities 
209         were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
210         by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar 
211         to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</para>
212
213         <para>The smbget manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.</para>
214
215 </refsect1>
216
217 </refentry>