2 Nov
2004
2 Nov
'04
12:26
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. [snip] 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