[TriLUG] Reverse Samba?

[jason at monsterjam.org]

actually if theyre > 2gig files, you probably wanna use cifs instead.

Jason

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 
12:02:10PM -0400, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> 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
> >
> >----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - 
> >http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
> >Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
> >University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
> >New Book: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/178592.ctl
> >
> >
> >
> >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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