Syncing Linux FS to Windows

[Tobias Speckbacher]

sure if you want to smbmount across the internet you could choose to do that ... whatever floats your boat

"What I want to be able to do is sync My Documents from the Windows box
at work onto the Linux box at home on an hourly bi-daily basis."




-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Ed Greshko
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 7:49 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: Syncing Linux FS to Windows




Tobias Speckbacher wrote:
> You could install cygwin and use rsync.
> seems to be an rsync day today :)

And as recently pointed out....

You can simply smbmount the XP file system locally and use rsync without 
the need for cygwin.  Yes?


> 
> -T
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Brian D. McGrew
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:08 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Syncing Linux FS to Windows
> 
> 
> At work I have my XP Pro box that works fine complete with my personal
> My Documents folder and all is controlled by a 2000 Domain Controller
> running Active Directory.  We have three T1's at work.
> 
> At home I've got a few Windows boxes controlled by my Linux box using
> Samba.  All the Windows boxes think that the Linux box is a NT server
> and Windows is quite happy with the roaming profiles that I've setup and
> remote shares.  I have a cable modem at home pull an average of 4MB
> down.
> 
> What I want to be able to do is sync My Documents from the Windows box
> at work onto the Linux box at home on an hourly bi-daily basis.  Of
> course to get all the data home initially I could create a zip file but
> then to keep everything updated is another story.
> 
> What would you guys recommend for this?  And of course I have full
> access to the network at work from home.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -brian
>  
> Brian D. McGrew        { brian at doubledimension.com ||
> brian at visionpro.com }
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> 
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> 
> 
> 

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