Yes, I believe the question was wrt sharing the Windows PC's tape drive,
not mounting/exporting a tape-based filesystem.
If both machines were Unix you could do something like:
# tar cf - /some/dir | rsh somehost "dd of=/dev/tape"
# rsh somehost "dd if=/dev/tape" | tar xf -
as a quick way to share a tape drive (if backing up over NFS was not
desired). Someone once mentioned this is a builtin option for tar, but
I have never tried it.
I don't think this is possible with Windows (though I believe rshd
servers do exist for Windows...)
Karl Runge
On Sat, 04 Mar 2000, "Kenneth E. Lussier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe that The question was can you share the DAT FROM a Windoze PC
> TO a Linux PC via SMB (at least that was how I was reading it). If the
> DAT can be read by the Windoze system and shared out using the windoze
> mechanisms (SMB protocol of print&file sharing), then wouldn't the
> smbclient on the Linux box be reading it as simply an SMB/Windoze mount
> point rather than as the actual fs that the DAT uses?
> Kenny
> Benjamin Scott wrote:
> > One problem: DAT is Digital Audio Tape. As in a sequential access medium.
> > It does not mount in the Unix filesystem, therefore it cannot be shared via
> > Samba. Additionally, Windows does treat sequential access devices differently
> > then random access devices. In fact, different versions of Windows treat them
> > differently, or not at all. :-)
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