On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 14:23 +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi folks > > I used to back up Win9x boxes to Linux by connecting to each box using > smbclient on \\boxname\admin$ and then smbmounting \\boxname\c$ before > then taring the relevent directories. > > I've tried a number of times to do the same with Win XP boxes, but > always get rejected - see below. Anyone know how I can do this these > days? > > [root@lcomp4 ~]# smbclient -U administrator //larc9/ADMIN$ ****** > Domain=[LARC9] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] > tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED > [root@lcomp4 ~]# smbclient -U administrator //larc9/C$ ****** > Domain=[LARC9] OS=[Windows 5.1] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] > tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED > [root@lcomp4 ~]# > > -- > Gary Stainburn Gary, I used samba to connect to winxp but directory enumeration was kinda slow. Instead, I use cifs as the filetype and mounted //xp/c$ to to /mnt/c. So, create a mount point mkdir /mnt/c then, mount it mount -t cifs //xp/c$ /mnt/c -o username=administrator,password= $password$ I also added the ip address of the xp box to /etc/hosts so that it resolves without any issues. This works incredibly fast! Adil
