[TriLUG] Reverse Samba?

[Kevin Flanagan]

Another approach would be to get Services for Unix, a FREE, as in beer not
speech, set of gnu like utilities for the Windows world.  NFS client,
server, and much more.



Kevin

On 3/21/07, MG <mgmonza at gmail.com> 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.
>
>
> MG
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