[TriLUG] Reverse Samba?

[MG]

Well, now,  I"m confused again.  I thought the shares had to be 
physically on the Linux box.  I set the share I used up on Linux - I 
named a directory in a particular partition on Linux, entered that name 
in samba.conf. and pointed to it from Windows using the Map Network 
Drive option of the Tools menu in the Windows Folder menus.  Windows 
could see the Samba share from there, so I could move stuff back and 
forth on those shares.  I couldn't get Linux to see the Windows drives 
at all, even with file sharing on, either through Samba or on the 
network, although the Windows machine itself shows up. 
 

I've not done file sharing on Windows before, so the problem may just be 
my own ignorance of how Windows operates.  But then that would make it 
outside the focus of this group, which I understand is about a 
-rational- operating system.


MG


Lee Fickenscher wrote:
> I'm a bit confused and maybe its because I misunderstood the problem, 
> but why not just smbmnt the windows shares? This would mount the 
> shares in the linux filesystem thus allowing you to use tar or 
> whatever else on them while still using the actual drive space of the 
> windows machine.
>
> -Lee
>
> On Mar 21, 2007, at 9:49 PM, MG wrote:
>
>>   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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