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Scott Silva wrote:
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<pre wrap="">John Summerfield spake the following on 3/14/2007 5:51 PM:
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<pre wrap="">Jason Ross wrote:
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John Summerfield wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Jason Ross wrote:
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<pre wrap="">\\10.0.0.11\users /backup smbfs defaults 0 0
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Change all your backslashes to two backslashes.
Why smbfs and not cifs?
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<pre wrap="">There is a samba box that holds all the windows shares on it. It also
runs a backup on the samba shares.
The boss wanted the email server to be backed up to a folder on the
samba share.
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<pre wrap="">Why smbfs and not cifs?
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<pre wrap=""><!---->If they are both linux servers, why not nfs?
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I'd like too, I am relatively new to this company (8 mos) and the only
other tech has given up trying.<br>
Management's only contact with Linux is with samba. They are dead set
on having everything samba.<br>
I have a medium amount of experience with Linux administration so I
cannot come up with an explanation convincing enough for them.<br>
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PS: can I set the NFS to point to a sub folder in the samba share?<br>
Jason<br>
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