On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 at 2:19pm, Eric Bergeron wrote

> My question is what is the prefered way to backup a win2k computer with 
> amanda?
> 
> I searched the FAQ-O-Matic and this mailing list's archives with no luck.

See docs/SAMBA

> Is the prefered method to smbmount C:\ and then tar what you want or do 
> you install cgywin and amanda on the win2k computer and configure amanda 
> as normal?

Closer to the first.  But you let amanda handle all the samba stuff -- it 
actually uses smbclient, not smbmount.  There are projects related to the 
second as well as an attempt at a native Win2k implementation, but I'm not 
sure about the status of those.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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