Thanks for the insight John.
In the scenario that you've described, is it true that every Windows
machine needs to run a samba server?
Thanks,
Terry
"John R. Jackson" wrote:
>
> >Please explain to me (who should be a server/client) how all this should
> >work, using my environment as an example. I have a Linux machine
> >(vedder) that is a amanda server (and client). I have a few other unix
> >machines (which we can ignore for now) and a Windows 2000 machine (ozzy)
> >that I need to backup two directories called c:\mydata and c:\mydata2.
> >How do I specify these directories?
>
> vedder //ozzy/mydata whatever
> vedder //ozzy/mydata2 whatever
>
> This tells Amanda to connect to vedder (via normal Amanda amandad)
> and vedder will run smbclient to //ozzy/mydata.
>
> In other words, the Amanda client (first column) is **always** a Unix box.
> The "disk", in the case of Samba, is the share name that will be accessed
> from the Amanda client, and thus it contains the PC host name.
>
> >Terry
>
> John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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