Is it possible to share a tape drive using Samba. I have a tape drive that is attached to a Solaris box, that I would like to use to backup my entire environment; Solaris and Windows. If this is possible, how should I configure the smb.conf file.
Umm. Samba is really for file and printer sharing - if that tape drive can look like a file or subdirectory that you can share, then it would help! Since I doubt that is the case, you are left using standard Unix facilities such as tar and cpio, or a commercial backup package for Solaris. However, if Samba is installed on your Solaris system, you should be able to use smbclient (in smbtar mode) to perform backups of Windows PC's to the tape drive on the Solaris box.
I came across a set of scripts that someone posted to the Samba mailing list a couple of years ago, which would take a list of PC and share names, and do a backup of multiple Windows PC's to the tape drive on a Unix system, using smbclient - with each PC being backed up to a separate tar file on the tape basically.
I hope that gets you started in the right direction.....
If you don't mind spending money, there are a few cross platform backup solutions (Arkeia?) that will let you access the Solaris tape drive from the Windows PC's....
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Jim Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
