Hi, I've not had to mess with XP at all yet, (whew) but I had my share of joy with the little 'quirks' win2k threw at samba. No doubt, XP has more/different ones yet. I think MS calls it "security". Silly name for over-engineering, IMHO. Anyhow, if you're not there already, make sure you've got the latest Samba. You might also check their site for up to date info. IIRC, they offer samba in RPM format as well. Best of luck, -mj And hence AUTHOR spewed: Pastor Doug Coats > Recently I needed to upgraded to XP from Win98 to run an XP native phone > system program. Before that I had programmed our RH 7.1 Server to use > smbmount to copy a backup of our file server to my machine at a set time > and then unmount when done. This worked great before I had to upgrade. > > If I share a directory in XP with simple sharing off so that I can set > the permissions so that only I have access to the backup Samba does not > seem to complete the mount correctly. It locked up the entire file > system and would only show this smbmount as the only mounted partition > but you could not write to it. > > Here is the script. > > smbmount //Computername/abackup /root/backup -o username=XP&Sambaname > password=XP&Sambapassword > > filename=H3`date +"%m_%d_%y"` > > /sbin/dump -0M -B 1150976 -f /root/backup/$filename /home > > smbumount /root/backup > > > If anyone has any insights I would be very grateful for you assistance. > > Thanks, > > Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list