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Something like
cp \\target_machine local_file.txt c:\dest_file.txt
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Something like
cp \\target_machine local_file.txt c:\dest_file.txt
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Assuming you have appropriate permissions, you can do it like this:
copy local_file.txt \\target_machine\c$\dest_file.txt
Use "c$" to reference C drive on the remote machine.
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It's like this:
copy c:\local_path\local_file.txt \\target_machine\destination_path\destination_file.txt
If you have \\target_machine\destination_path\
mapped to a network drive, say, Z:
then the command becomes
copy c:\local_path\local_file.txt Z:\destination_file.txt
On Windows machines/networks, a share such as c$
must be used. – Timtech – 2015-03-27T00:24:41.530
when I try the first option (without the c$ stuff) I get "The system cannot find the path specified" or "The network name cannot be found", depending on one or two backslashes before machine name. – Ash – 2010-10-08T05:15:18.370
Hmm, there was an error in Markdownformatting which showed only single backslash instead of 2. If you're getting The network name cannot be found
then it's a network problem, either you don't have permissions or the firewall is blocking your requests – Sathyajith Bhat – 2010-10-08T12:23:03.063
I tried both one and two backslashes, and got the different error messages depending on which I used. "Network name cannot be found" was with two backslashes. Interesting. That works with your network setup? It didn't work with either our server or other clients... – Ash – 2010-10-08T13:45:41.883
@Ash single backslash indicates you are accessing the current drive, hence you got the system cannot find path specified error
. Double backslash is used for accessing network shares with UNC naming scheme. Yes, this works on my network, I have couple of scripts where I make use of this ( scripts are to export data, compress them and move them to NAS). I suspect permissions problems. Are the machines you want to copy on different domains/workgroups ? – Sathyajith Bhat – 2010-10-08T13:59:37.490
How do you include a username and password to authenticate if you don't have appropriate permissions? – ArtOfWarfare – 2018-03-18T14:33:45.583
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Searching around suggests
– Ash – 2018-03-19T09:11:52.187net use
to provide the authentication to the share before copying (eg: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3854026). Not sure if that works with the c$ notation above though, you'd have to try it and see.