[TriLUG] Reverse Samba?

[Michael Rothwell]

smbclient -T might do the trick for you.

Example from the man page got smbclient:
smbclient //mypc/myshare "" -N -Tc backup.tar users/docs


On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:56 AM, 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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