[TriLUG] Reverse Samba?

[MG]

I think that's it.  The Samba share turned out to be big enough for 
now.  Cygwin should do most of the drive later - thanks for that 
information.

MG

Marty Ferguson wrote:
> 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
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> jason at monsterjam.org wrote:
>
>> actually if theyre > 2gig files, you probably wanna use cifs instead.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:02:10PM -0400, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> and mount -t smbfs
>>>
>>> and smbmount
>>>
>>> -Andy
>>>
>>> Andrew Perrin wrote:
>>>   
>>>> You can use smbclient and smbtar (part of the samba package) to 
>>>> mount and backup the windows machines.
>>>>
>>>> ap
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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