tar extension to the client

Mike Fedyk mfedyk at matchmail.com
Wed Mar 14 01:41:34 GMT 2001


On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:21:03PM -0800, C. Nguyen wrote:
> I would like to get a HOWTO backup pc client with samba server under
> linux.  If there is no howto out there, a short scription how it works
> would be great!
> 
> I tried
> #mount //pc-host/share-point /mnt/mount-point -t ....
> 
you're thinking of smbfs, a kernel module.

try mount -t smbfs //host/share /local/mount -o username=user

and man mount and search for smbfs
man smbmount

smbmount, and mount use the same args after -o

Mike




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