My thought is that if rsync for Windows dies a horrible death then
smbclient or smbmount will die an even more horrible death.
-- Puryear IT, LLC Identity Management, Directory Services, Systems Integration Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 * http://www.puryear-it.com "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/ebooks/linux-unix-best-practices Joey Kelly wrote: > On Monday 09 July 2007 18:30, -ray wrote: >> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Joey Kelly wrote: >>> Ok, call me cheap and set in my ways, but I'm going to be doing exactly >>> that next week. I will install cygwin on the windows PC, and make sshd >>> run as a service. Once I have that in place, I'm going to pull updates to >>> a linux server using rsync. >> We tried this a few years back on a server with user dir's. It had 10's >> of thousands of folders. Rsync for windows would just die a horrible >> death. We ended up using robocopy, which works well >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy). Maybe the kinks in rsync for >> windows have been worked out by now. > > Ok, what about using smbmount and doing everything locally on the linux box? > ___________________ Nolug mailing list nolug@nolug.orgReceived on 07/10/07
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