We do this, but we don't share the tape drive...we share the drives on the other machines on the network. The box with the tape drive mounts the shares on the other machines to a temporary mount point, backs it up, and then unmounts it.
Something like this command will mount it: mount -t smbfs -o username=root,password=blahblah //computer1/c /wkstn-1 Then, just use your regular tape drive tools to backup the /wkstn-1 directory. Although you could probably share a tape drive, I'm not sure that you could do it in such a way that it would be usable by any Windows software, so I think it is easier to do it this way. Trey Nolen ----- Original Message ----- From: Nate Grissom To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 10:03 AM Subject: [Samba] Tape Drives Is it possible to share a tape drive using Samba. I have a tape drive that is attached to a Solaris box, that I would like to use to backup my entire environment; Solaris and Windows. If this is possible, how should I configure the smb.conf file. Thanks Nate Grissom [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba