Warner White wrote:
I'm having trouble setting up my network again. Two linux machines and
two Windows machines. It used to be that my wife could print from her XP
machine via the network centered on one of my ubuntu desktops. And I can
get her printing working now if first I try reading one of my linux
machine files from her machine and in the process enter the username and
password. But she is computer-challenged (I despair of trying to teach
her that), and we shouldn't have to do it any how.
Are you using XP Home or Pro? XP Home will not remount network drives
correctly on reboot. To get around that, I put a small .bat file in the
startup directory that just runs 'net use' to remount the drives. I'd
have to look at the files at work, I can't remember the 'net use' syntax
off the top of my head.
While I'm at it--any ideas about how to sync the Documents folders on
two linux machines? I was using SimpleBackup and it restored some
important files for me, but it moves at a snail's pace (an hour or two
for each restoration!, with even the smallest of files), and for some
reason it did not backup the last month even though I am good about
running backup every night. I got most of my stuff back by copying from
one machine to the other; so I'm very interested in backup by sync.
Use rsync, it compares files by breaking them up into segments and only
transferring those portions that are different.
Rene
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