Benjamin Smith wrote: > I'm setting up a disk-to-disk backup server with CentOS 4 as the O/S on the > backup server. Our small business office is a number of systems using Windows > XP Home and Macintosh systems. The server is together and apparently working. > > However, in order to backup a Windows laptop, I'd have to open up SMB sharing > on the Windows systems, and that raises a number of security issues. What are > the recommendations for doing this most securely? So far, it's been policy to > simply not have laptops with SMB sharing ever turned on. > > Why not use rsyncd?
There is a simple installer you can download from the backuppc site. the service.bat inside that installs it as a service, and optionally opens up the firewall to allow access to the rsyncd. Rsyncd can be set to only accept connections from the backuppc server and you can use auth if necessary. rsyncd runs on tcp port 873 and you can use it on the mac's too. No need for smb sharing. Regards, Les ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
