Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:01:28 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: mike@ascendency.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help backing up to networked drive Message-ID: <43CFB7D8.7050400@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <00a801c61d10$699e6bb0$0401a8c0@Mike8500> References: <00a801c61d10$699e6bb0$0401a8c0@Mike8500>
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Mike Loiterman wrote: [ ... ] > This is working fine, but I have to run the script mannually and enter the > password. > > So my question are these: > 1. Is there any other way of doing this so that I would not have to deal > with the password issue from ssh? This is all taking place behind a secure > firewall on my local network, so ssh is probably not necessary. You can use ssh-keygen to generate a RSA or DSA keyapir without a passphrase; copy that to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the other machine, and you can ssh without entering a password. > 2. How can I use samba to mount the Mini's drive? mount_smbfs would only > see the home share belonging to the user I was logging in with and not the > /Volume directory on the Mac. Sym-links from the users /home to /Volumes > didn't work correctly. How can I access the drives in /Volumes via samba? You either have to configure Samba to explicitly list the path under /Volumes as a share, or you have to enable the option to follow symlinks outside the share which contains your symlink.... -- -Chuck
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