Copy folder with Ubuntu smb client

The smb client for Ubuntu is easy enough to use; however I searched for quite a while before I found the exact syntax for the command to copy whole directories instead of just files. I have done this a couple of times now but have never documented it so I figured I should for future reference.

I also feel that the previous times I might have done it a different way so I wouldn't be surprised if some of you can suggest yet another way to accomplish this.

What I used was this (at the Ubuntu terminal).

(My Users folder under my C:\ drive was shared from my Windows machine)

smbclient //192.168.1.2/Users
cd <the directory path of the parent folder of the directory that you want to copy)
recurse (this is so that smb recursively copies all subdirectories and files)
mget <the folder that you want to copy>

You can either use the statements separately in the order provided above or you could use it in one statement as in the following example:

smbclient //192.168.1.2/Users -N -c 'prompt;recurse;cd Hermann\Downloads\;mget "New Movie"'

The above line will get the "New Movie" folder from the machine specified by the IP address.
The -N parameter: this parameter suppresses the normal password prompt from the client to the user
The -c parameter: this parameter specifies that a command to be executed will follow. It is very useful in scripts

Finally I have it documented :)

Let me know if I can be of more assistance!

Thanks,

Hermann