[TriLUG] Reverse Samba?

[Andrew C. Oliver]

and mount -t smbfs

and smbmount

-Andy

Andrew Perrin wrote:
> You can use smbclient and smbtar (part of the samba package) to mount 
> and backup the windows machines.
>
> ap
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>
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, MG wrote:
>
>> Not a request for dancing instruction  :)  but it still may be too 
>> basic a question for this group:
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to use my Debian kernel 2.6 computers to back up some very 
>> large Windows XP directories and want to use Gzip and  tar to do 
>> this.  Linux being the lean mean system it is, those boxen have small 
>> hard drives. Me being the cash-strapped cheapskate I am, I don't want 
>> to pay for Linux-like utilities for M$ machines,
>> Dual-booting is the obvious answer, but not until those files are 
>> backed up. Knoppix doesn't seem able to see the windows files and has 
>> problems recognizing the CD drive in any case, so I don't think I can 
>> use it to transfer the files to CD.  And Debian networking recognizes 
>> the Windows machine, but can't access it, even though I'm pretty sure 
>> I've marked the drives as shareable.  I set up Samba, and can 
>> transfer files to the relatively small share I've allocated on the 
>> Debian machine and do Windows and Linux things to them there, but 
>> can't get the reverse thing going - having Linux be able to to do 
>> Linux things on the Windows laptop.
>>
>>
>> Is there something obvious I'm missing here with Samba, or did I just 
>> build a watch and still can't read the time?  Thanks in advance for 
>> any help, advice, answers, etc.
>>
>>
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