Smbxfer version 0.01

Smbxfer is a module/script hybrid in the spirit of Brian D Foy's "modulino" concept. Smbxfer is a command-line tool to transfer data between the local filesystem and a Samba share. It supports basic file copying, recursive directory copying, and simple path mirroring in a manner similar to rsync.

Though the 'smbclient' tool can do most of these things, it appears to be bound by a timeout limit that, in practice, seemed to limit my transfers to a bit over a gigabyte. Smbxfer has no such limitation. This was the main motivation behind its development.

As a module, it provides a few useful functions for file transfers to/from SMB servers.

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Alternatively, to install with Module::Build, you can use the following commands:

perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
./Build install

DEPENDENCIES

Exporter
Getopt::Long
IO::Prompt
Filesys::SmbClient
Test::More
Test::Differences
File::Find
File::Temp

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2007, Karl Erisman

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.