From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp-server3.tampabay.rr.com ([65.32.1.41]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17dWnH-0000Ue-00 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:00:39 -0400 Received: from manta.diver.dwn (653244hfc127.tampabay.rr.com [65.32.44.127]) by smtp-server3.tampabay.rr.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g7AE0emI006310 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:00:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smed by manta.diver.dwn with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17dWnH-0000rS-00 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:00:39 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:00:39 -0400 From: Keith Watson To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: samba: reading files from my Windows 2000 machine from my RedHat Linux machine. Message-ID: <20020810140039.GA3047@smed.2y.net> References: <001f01c23d90$b4bf3510$98185a8c@17158MR2> <20020807230726.GA21580@lrxms.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020807230726.GA21580@lrxms.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Reply-To: Kwatson@smed.yi.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hello all, Thought I might share this with you. Recently I had a need to duplicate a 110 gig Winblows file system from one winblows box to another. Hmmmm, winblows has some tools to do this but with very little assurance factor. I looked into rsync on a windows box, nice idea but from all the reading i did I got the idea that it would only replicate from winblows to a linux server. Shelved that one for later use. Next I looked at samba. Found the perfect solution there. Using the following command I was able to mount the two shared directories and use my linux server to rsync from one winblows system to another. smbmount "\\\\server\\share" /mountpoint -o username=linuxrox,password=winblowssux I had to use the double quotes because the share had a space in it. Hope this helps someone. And oh by the way, to unmount the mount point just use: smbumount /mountpoint Good Luck. On 07:07 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > For a good comprehensive document on Samba, go to the Samba web site, > http://www.samba.org and read the book they have available. Its quite > good and will get you up and running quickly. > Can't say about winblows 2000, but had no real problem getting 98 > working. Was a matter of editing the Samba config file and setting home > directories and workgroup name. Set that up on the winblows side and off > we go. > > good luck > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Keith Watson kwatson@smed.2y.net Among the major impediments to discovery are not the ignorant but those with illusions of knowledge. - B. Alan Wallace