Rene, thank you. I've looked up net use and how to write a batch file and I think I'll be able to do it.
I'll check on rsync later. Warner White 12 Harbor Watch Road Burlington VT 05401 H: 802-863-0182 C: 802-318-0956 www.warnerwhite.org ________________________________ From: Rene Churchill <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2009 9:11:39 PM Subject: Re: Network without passwords 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 -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= René Churchill [email protected] Geek Two 802-244-7880 x527 Your Source for Local Information http://www.wherezit.com
