Your biggest problem could be on the windoze side, with it's stupid permissions scheme, especially contrived to make you feel secure. They have most of the permissions hardwired into the code!!!!!When i ran into this a while back i had to first export stuff to the doze "SHARED" folder, then i could bring it into linucs. You might ask around for a hack of that situation, i am no hacker of any significance. On Tuesday 02 November 2004 02:26, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Tuesday 02 November 2004 11:11, jalal wrote:
I have a client who is using Windows XP and wants to backup his files (preferably automatically) to my Linux server.
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But what would work under Windows? Does Windows have a shell and shell tools? I suspect not. And this is not a computer guru anyway.
Windows does have scripting abilities, but I don't know much about them.
What I did was make a share on the windows box, with user+password auth. Then I wrote a script that mounts that share on the linux box, copy the stuff, and unmounts it again. Works beautifully.
-- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za