Re: how to mount a windows 'share' under linux

2004-11-29 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 01:01:44PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > we'd like to automate backups from the office windo~1 box using rsync. > we can do it usnig samba and the ftp-like interface, but all timestamps > are lost this way (unless there's an option we've missed). > > we googled for things l

Re: how to mount a windows 'share' under linux

2004-11-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Sam Watkins: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 11:54:17AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > watch out for dumb file anems like: > > office birthday list > > bob's projections > > 'any other "dumb" file names' allowed in windoz, that is not > > allowed in *nix > > I think the only c

Re: how to mount a windows 'share' under linux

2004-11-27 Thread Sam Watkins
On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 11:54:17AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > watch out for dumb file anems like: > office birthday list > bob's projections > 'any other "dumb" file names' allowed in windoz, that is not > allowed in *nix I think the only characters not allowed in a unix fil

Re: how to mount a windows 'share' under linux

2004-11-27 Thread Micha Feigin
At Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:01:44 -0600, will trillich wrote: > > we'd like to automate backups from the office windo~1 box using rsync. > we can do it usnig samba and the ftp-like interface, but all timestamps > are lost this way (unless there's an option we've missed). > > we googled for things like

Re: how to mount a windows 'share' under linux

2004-11-27 Thread Matt Perry
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, will trillich wrote: > we'd like to automate backups from the office windo~1 box using rsync. > we can do it usnig samba and the ftp-like interface, but all timestamps > are lost this way (unless there's an option we've missed). smbmount is the command that you want. > we go

Re: how to mount a windows 'share' under linux

2004-11-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Cristi Banciu wrote: > will trillich wrote: > > > we'd like to automate backups from the office windo~1 box using rsync. you probably cannot use rsync .. - you will need rsyncd on the linux box ( nto a problem ) - you will need rsync client on the windoze b

Re: how to mount a windows 'share' under linux

2004-11-27 Thread Cristi Banciu
will trillich wrote: we'd like to automate backups from the office windo~1 box using rsync. we can do it usnig samba and the ftp-like interface, but all timestamps are lost this way (unless there's an option we've missed). we googled for things like 'mount windows share under linux filesystem' and

how to mount a windows 'share' under linux

2004-11-27 Thread will trillich
we'd like to automate backups from the office windo~1 box using rsync. we can do it usnig samba and the ftp-like interface, but all timestamps are lost this way (unless there's an option we've missed). we googled for things like 'mount windows share under linux filesystem' and get .exe downloadable