[TriLUG] Reverse Samba?
MG
mgmonza at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 21:49:55 EDT 2007
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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