At 11:28 11/14/2005 -0800, Lan Barnes wrote: >I'm going to do a Q&D backup of my Linux server at work by making a tar >file and then copying it to a M$ server under my control that is backed >up nightly by IT. I've shared the directory on M$ that I want to be the >target \\wrapp14\oz_backup. Now I need to know what to do from the Linux >server (oz). cp and mount don't seem to work. Is there some kind of >reverse samba?
Try using Konqueror (KDE) or Nautilus (Gnome) for a GUI way to do this. In the Location field, type: smb:/ or smb:/// Sometimes one way works and the other doesn't. Not sure why. I've had much better results with Konqueror than Nautilus. If it's working, you should see a listing of the available domains or workgroups. Then you can click on them to browse to individual PCs. You might get a login box where you have to enter your Windows username and pasword. If you login successfully you can then drag and drop files to the Windows machine. Both of these rely on the samba packages, in particular the libsmbclient portion. Note that this is different than using smbmount to actually mount the share and make it part of your filesystem hierarchy. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
