On Thursday, October 14, 2010, at 12:53:24 PM, Craig A wrote: > Thanks very much - appreciate the info. I've looked at your > examples and I'm still having issues.
The SMB protocol seems to be a moving target; things that were working for me a year ago have quit working after updates to the Samba packages. This has nothing to do with BackupPC itself, but adds to the issues. A solution that now works for me, to access Windows folders that have spaces in their names such as "My Documents," is to go into Windows' sharing configuration dialogs and make such folders into separate shares. For the "Share as" edit box when doing so, I put "MyDocs" or something similar, with no embedded space and a name that's slightly different from what Windows uses. This makes that folder appear as an entire separate share to other systems, and bypasses all the problems of embedded spaces. It can also solve permissions problems, since you can set permissions for the share that can differ from those that Windows assigns to the folder (which was actually the reason I came up with this approach in the first place). Then in the BackupPC configuration file, use the new share name instead of the original, and include "*" from it instead of giving the actual path names all over again (or if you only want to back up specific files and sub-folders you can list them). -- Jim Kyle mailto:[email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
