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: > > > > sni

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,

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 working

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 d

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 might

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 y

[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 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 win

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,

[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