Re: [TCLUG:8218] Samba - In reverse

["Clayton T. Fandre" <cfandre@maddog.mn-linux.org>]

You'll want to use smbmount. It lets you mount NT shares just like an
NFS mount. Compile the latest samba with smbmount by adding a
--with-smbmount option to configure.
$ ./configure --with-smbmount
$ make
$ make install

and then mount a NT share
$ smbmount //server/share mountpoint
and then you can backup the directory like you would a local directory.
To unmount
$ smbumount mountpoint

Clay

Bob Nolte wrote:
> 
> By the way, really enjoyed Amy's presentation on IP Masquerading today.
> 
> This may seem to be an ignorant question, but I'm still developing my Linux
> knowledge.
> 
> I now have a decent Linux box that has a nice tape drive in it. I would
> like to use it to
> backup data that is still stored on a Windows NT 4.0 server. Any way to do
> this?
> 
> This seems like Samba in reverse. I can easily see the Linux box from the
> Windows
> computers, but now I need to do the opposite. I have been able to use the
> smbclient,
> but this is much like FTP. What I'd really like to do is mount a share on
> the NT box so
> that it can be backed up along with the other data. I suppose that the
> simple answer
> would be to put the tape drive into the NT Server, but that seems like a
> step backwards.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any ideas or assistance.
> 
> Bob
> 
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