You are on the right track. I would suggest enable samba network sharing but first, go in and edit your smb.conf (/etc/samba/smb.conf on my machine) to disable all of the open network sharing. ... share only what you want, if anything). The important thing is that samba is running so it could be detected by your backuppc server.
Other folks, please speak up in case I am spouting information 'from where I do not know' :) On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 19:15 +0200, Sébastien Barthélemy wrote: > Le vendredi 28 septembre 2007 à 09:55 -0500, Jack Coats a écrit : > > yes, expounded upon :) --- my wife gets on my case for answering the > > question she asked rather than what she meant! > > > > the facility to detect a machine by name rather than just IP works well. > > I would just try it first. Don't put the laptop in your /etc/hosts > > files, and see it you can get to it from the server using nmblookup. (I > > forget the full syntax right now, sorry) > > Thank you for your suggestion, > > nmblookup does work for a windows computer but not for my ubuntu laptop > (nor for a MacOS X laptop I tried a few month ago). > > Is there a simple and secure way to enable such reply ? (if yes, what is it > ?) Will it work on mac ? > > (I'm rather suspicious on that topic: last time I enabled samba sharing on > ubuntu, people where able to see all the computer user names) > > > cheers > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
