While you can do this with Samba, it's not a good idea.
Samba was designed to permit sharing files with WINBLOWS machines.
As a result it frequently drops Linux/Unix specific characteristics of
files... I.E. some permissions, etc.
It also has trouble with certain filenames which are permitted under
Linux.
You are better off using NFS which tends to preserve everything.
NFS is a SNAP to set up using Linux config.
You "export" the mount points of the devices you want to share, start
NFS and on the other machine mount the remote machine...
I.E. if the remote machine is named "remote" and you are "exporting" the
root file system, you could mount it with
"mount remote:/ /mnt/remote"
Where the second "remote" entry is a directory you have created to be
the local mount point...
Remember that you'll need some sort of name resolution, be it /etc/hosts
or DNS available to both machines for this to work... And the
permissions must be set so that both machines are allowed to contact the
other... (if you are going both ways...)
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Andrew Miller
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 2:38 PM
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Subject: [newbie] copying files from one to another
I have two laptops on the same network running Mandrake 8. Samba is
installed and running on both. It is not clear to me how best to
copy files from one to the other for backup and synchronization
purposes. Can someone recommend the best method?
Andy
