sure if you want to smbmount across the internet you could choose to do that ... whatever floats your boat "What I want to be able to do is sync My Documents from the Windows box at work onto the Linux box at home on an hourly bi-daily basis." -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ed Greshko Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 7:49 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Syncing Linux FS to Windows Tobias Speckbacher wrote: > You could install cygwin and use rsync. > seems to be an rsync day today :) And as recently pointed out.... You can simply smbmount the XP file system locally and use rsync without the need for cygwin. Yes? > > -T > > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Brian D. McGrew > Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:08 PM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: Syncing Linux FS to Windows > > > At work I have my XP Pro box that works fine complete with my personal > My Documents folder and all is controlled by a 2000 Domain Controller > running Active Directory. We have three T1's at work. > > At home I've got a few Windows boxes controlled by my Linux box using > Samba. All the Windows boxes think that the Linux box is a NT server > and Windows is quite happy with the roaming profiles that I've setup and > remote shares. I have a cable modem at home pull an average of 4MB > down. > > What I want to be able to do is sync My Documents from the Windows box > at work onto the Linux box at home on an hourly bi-daily basis. Of > course to get all the data home initially I could create a zip file but > then to keep everything updated is another story. > > What would you guys recommend for this? And of course I have full > access to the network at work from home. > > Thanks, > > -brian > > Brian D. McGrew { brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx || > brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx } > -- > >>YOU! Off my planet! > > > -- "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." --Ford Prefect in "Mostly Harmless". -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
