Jon,
on 15/3/00 9:48 AM, Jon Gardner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>> What about using Netatalk to mount volumes on a Unix/Linux box for
>>> Retrospect to backup? Anyone doing this?
>>
>> Unless I'm missing something obvious, the issue that keeps coming
>> back to haunt Dantz :-) is that there is no client to run on the *nix
>> box. Netatalk or not, Retrospect has no way to communicate directly
>> with the *nix box because there is no client to accept the
>> proprietary connection.
>
> Retro will backup files from a mounted network drive. You don't have to be
> running a client on the other machine.
The point is, without installing Netatalk or SAMBA there are no network
drives to mount. Unix/Linux does not provide native filesharing support for
MacOS or Windows ... that is what Netatalk and SAMBA do.
Cheers, Malcolm
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