Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread Paul
On Wednesday 01 Mar 2006 22:54, Harry Putnam wrote: snip One way would be to mount the disk locally using cifs. See `man mount.cifs' for details but the syntax looks like this: From /etc/fstab (This is all one line in fstab) //harvey/harvey-c /mnt/harvey-c cifs noauto,username=reader,\

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread John Jolet
mount -t cifs -o user=reader%XXPASSWDXX //harvey/harvey-c /mnt/ harvey-c The directory /mnt/harvey-c has to be created ahead of time. The user reader needs to have an account on that windows machine. You'll need a windows user account username and password. If you don't use passwords for

[gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to mount these drives so that I can run a backup script to backup all of my gentoo system. I have tried smbmount and mount -t smbfs but even after reading man mount and smbmount I am still unclear as to the correct format. So are you saying the cifs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread Paul
On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: snip mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace if the share is password protected, after the smbfs, add -o username=whatever,password=whatever only root will be able to do this. You might want to try to avoid spaces in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: snip mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace if the share is password protected, after the smbfs, add -o username=whatever,password=whatever only root will be able to do this. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread Paul
On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 14:37, John Jolet wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: snip mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace Thanks for all your help -- I now have it working, it appears that the line didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Paul wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 14:37, John Jolet wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: snip mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace Thanks for all your help -- I now have it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:58:33 + Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 14:37, John Jolet wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: snip Thanks for all your help -- I now have it working, it appears that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread Paul
On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 15:14, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:58:33 + Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 14:37, John Jolet wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: snip Thanks for

[gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am probably missing the obvious here but how do I get a script to recognise a network usb2 disk? I konqueror I can read and write using smb:// xxx.yyy.com but if I define the backup disk the same I get the error message that there is no such file or