[TriLUG] Reverse Samba?

[Marty Ferguson]

You could install cygwin on the windows boxen, and create the tarballs 
natively.
It would be a quick and simple solution.

http://www.cygwin.com/

Redhat bought Cygnus software, along with the open-source cigwin a few 
years ago. 
I've used cygwin.  Works great

Marty

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jason at monsterjam.org wrote:

>actually if theyre > 2gig files, you probably wanna use cifs instead.
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>Jason
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>On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 
>12:02:10PM -0400, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
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>>and mount -t smbfs
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>>and smbmount
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>>-Andy
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>>Andrew Perrin wrote:
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>>>You can use smbclient and smbtar (part of the samba package) to mount 
>>>and backup the windows machines.
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>>>ap
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>>>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
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>>>On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, MG wrote:
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>>>>Not a request for dancing instruction  :)  but it still may be too 
>>>>basic a question for this group:
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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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