Hello all, Thought I might share this with you. Recently I had a need to duplicate a 110 gig Winblows file system from one winblows box to another. Hmmmm, winblows has some tools to do this but with very little assurance factor. I looked into rsync on a windows box, nice idea but from all the reading i did I got the idea that it would only replicate from winblows to a linux server. Shelved that one for later use. Next I looked at samba. Found the perfect solution there. Using the following command I was able to mount the two shared directories and use my linux server to rsync from one winblows system to another. smbmount "\\\\server\\share" /mountpoint -o username=linuxrox,password=winblowssux I had to use the double quotes because the share had a space in it. Hope this helps someone. And oh by the way, to unmount the mount point just use: smbumount /mountpoint Good Luck. On 07:07 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > For a good comprehensive document on Samba, go to the Samba web site, > http://www.samba.org and read the book they have available. Its quite > good and will get you up and running quickly. > Can't say about winblows 2000, but had no real problem getting 98 > working. Was a matter of editing the Samba config file and setting home > directories and workgroup name. Set that up on the winblows side and off > we go. > > good luck > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Keith Watson kwatson at smed.2y.net Among the major impediments to discovery are not the ignorant but those with illusions of knowledge. - B. Alan Wallace
