Hi Jim, Interesting - thanks! I tried that and it worked... Thanks for all the suggestions.
-- Craig. On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Jim Kyle <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
