Allow me to clarify. I've been trying to help him, but my knowledge of XP is extreamly limited. We have a Linux based file server. We want to back up the /home directory from this Linux system onto A dvdrom burner on a Windows machine. Other applications (a phone management system) on this Windows machine now require it to run XP. Doug is using dump to create backup images directly on the Windows machine because there is not enough space on the file server to hold the backup images. Thus the requirement for using smb. This was all working on Win 98 (or was it Me). At this point, Doug can mount the XP share, which is set up with full permissions for the user he is mounting as. When he attempts to create a file, he gets a permission denied. Doug, can you create a file when you "mount" this share from another Windows machine? > Could you clarify a few things? > "my PC" = a winxp machine? > Partitions on this winxp machine are not big enough to hold /home from > the linux server. Correct? Which side do you want to initiate the > transfer from? If it's going to a scheduled backup, then is your xp > machine constantly powered up? > <humor>If it's constantly powered up, how do u manage to run anything on > it besides notepad?</humor> > > > Pastor Doug Coats wrote: >> By the way... >> >> If anyone knows another way I could accomplish the same thing without >> using Smbmount I am open to suggestions. >> >> All I want is for Linux to copy the dump of the /home directory over >> onto my PC. Here's the catch. None of the partitions on the server >> are large enough to hold a full backup of the /home directory. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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