Le 27/07/2011 16:20, Alain Péan a écrit : > Le 27/07/2011 10:46, jiahwei a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> I would need some guidance to installing samba on the windows Xp client >> machine so that I can do the backup on my Backuppc host which is running on >> Redhat. >> >> >> Read some of the thread that it would require the cygwin. Can anyone tell me >> more about it? >> Would appreciate much help. >> >> Thanks. =) >> >> > Hi jiahwei, > > I think you have to learn some system administration... Samba is not a > software to install on windows XP. In fact, SMB (Server Message Block) > is a protocole that is used since at least 20 years by microsoft for > "shares", that permit the exchange of data between windows machines > inside a same workgroup/domain. Nothing to install. Just know that, by > default, there exist "administative" shares for each partitions : c$, > d$, ... > Samba is a Linux/Unix software that was developped to simulate this > protocol, and allow Linux/Unix machines to share data (and more), with > windows machine. That is what is useful here. > > Cygwin is another method to access the data, using rsync or rsyncd. In > fact, BackupPC can use four methods to backup the PCs : smb (for > windows), rsync, rsyncd, or FTP. You can configure the method you want > for each host using the web interface. > > Did you read the documentation ? > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#step_5__client_setup > > Alain >
Just a correction, the fourth method is tar, FTP method is just planned, if I remember correctly. Alain -- ========================================================== Alain Péan - LPP/CNRS Administrateur Système/Réseau Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas - UMR 7648 Observatoire de Saint-Maur 4, av de Neptune, Bat. A 94100 Saint-Maur des Fossés Tel : 01-45-11-42-39 - Fax : 01-48-89-44-33 ========================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ 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/
