[TriLUG] Reverse Samba?

[Andrew Perrin]

You can use smbclient and smbtar (part of the samba package) to mount and 
backup the windows machines.

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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.
>
>
> MG 
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