[TriLUG] Reverse Samba?

[Lee Fickenscher]

I'm a bit confused and maybe its because I misunderstood the problem,  
but why not just smbmnt the windows shares? This would mount the  
shares in the linux filesystem thus allowing you to use tar or  
whatever else on them while still using the actual drive space of the  
windows machine.

-Lee

On Mar 21, 2007, at 9:49 PM, MG wrote:

>   Kevin Flanagan wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>
> NFS was starting to occur to me.  I used it at work in a Solaris/ 
> Win 3.1 environment, sometime back in the stone age - it was very  
> convenient (well, except for that control/m thing).
>
>
> Jeremy Portzer wrote:
>> If you want both free beer and free speech, try using Cygwin  
>> instead of Services for Unix.  I haven't personally used cygwin as  
>> an NFS server, but the NFS client works fine, and I know the NFS  
>> server is available. It would be worth a try - yes, there is an  
>> OSS world on Windows, even if it's smaller.
>>
>
> Cygwin looks like the way to go for backing up the whole drive.   
> Now  I know that NFS is part of it, too, I'll have to schedule  
> another fun afternoon exploring the whole package sometime in the  
> future.  Thanks!
>
>
> This Samba stuff's really neat, though - it's working fine for now  
> for the 2 g. or so directories I'm backing up.
>
>
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