On 9/26/05, Nate Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Rick DeNatale wrote: > > Now, in my case the question is how to do this with an XP Home box?!? > > Buy XP Pro? :) > > In all seriousness, you *may* be able to do it (or create an additional > share for C:\ that administrator can access), with the following: > > http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xpperm/xpPerm1.htm > > I've never tried, though.
I thought that it might help someone if I documented some of the steps I seemed to have to go through in order to get backuppc to talk to my wife's Windows XP Home box. I'd never set it up to serve smb files before, although I have been successfully using samba to share a directory on my linux workstation/server for quite some time. I first tried sharing the C drive with the properties dialog. But when I tested the connection with smbclient, although I could connect to the share, I got access denied errors if I tried to drill down to subdirectories. This led me to ask the quoted question which Nate graciously answered. I did this, and also turned off the Windows firewall from the control panel, which seems to be one of the things which turning off "Simple file sharing" seems to do in XP Pro. After this, I no longer could connect to any samba shares on the machine. Issuing smbclient commands seemed to time out. So I fell back to testing basic network connectivity. I could no longer ping the windows machine from anywhere else, although I could ping from the windows machine. Arping showed that the windows machine did indeed respond to arp requests and knew its own ip address. After much head scratching, and a night in bed. I discovered that this machine actually had TWO firewalls. (It's a Compaq by the way), somehow turning the "Windows Firewall" off had turned the Norton personal firewall ON. I added 192.168.0.0/24 to the trusted sites list in NPF (actually it made me use a subnet mask, but that's another gripe), and now I could ping the machine, and connect to the shares. Testing now, I was still having problems with permissions drilling down to subdirectories. For example I needed to explicitly share c:\My Documents, and the subdirectory of each user before I could get to individual user documents. So I finally seem to have successfully backed up the critical directories on this machine. Now to test restore. -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
