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I am trying to move the SVN backup files from the local directory to a NAS device via Putty and I am using the following syntax, however I am receiving the below error message - 

debian@debianvm:~/svn-backups$ smbclient //IP/Volume_1/NAS/SVN_backups/ -U 'username' 'password'
Domain=[DLINK-88F0C6] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.2.8]
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME

Could you please let me know what might be the root cause?

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You must provide a share name to smbclient; a subdirectory is not supported.

smbclient //IP/Volume_1 -U username password

You should be able to verify this by mounting the share somewhere:

mount -t cifs //IP/volume_1 /mnt/tmp -o user=username,pass=password

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Giving a password on the command line is considered bad practice for security resaons: unprivileged users could potentially read the password from the output of ps or by checking the relevant parts of the /proc filesystem. In the case of smbclient you can use the -A/--authentication-file option instead, if mounting filesystems use the credentials mount option. – David Spillett Nov 21 '11 at 16:05
And ? THat's what he did - I merely assist in troubleshooting. – adaptr Nov 21 '11 at 16:42
Thanks m8, I managed :) – Chris Cutajar Nov 22 '11 at 10:04
@adaptr: just adding potentially relevant information, I wasn't suggesting your answer was wrong. I nearly added the comment to the question instead but felt it made more sense here as the question didn't mention mount and you has added that (useful) detail. – David Spillett Nov 22 '11 at 10:33
I can mount a subdirectory (on Debian squeeze) using mount -t cifs '\\cifs.cs.brown.edu\home\jon-test' /mnt/ -o user=jon-test without problems. Also, @DavidSpillett , it conveniently asks me for my password without additional options :) – jon Dec 16 '11 at 19:14
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