From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 19 16:01:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E034316A41F for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:01:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5797E43D46 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:01:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED635DD5; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:01:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29077-06; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:01:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-122-227.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.122.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E9D5C52; Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:01:27 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43CFB7D8.7050400@mac.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:01:28 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mike@ascendency.net References: <00a801c61d10$699e6bb0$0401a8c0@Mike8500> In-Reply-To: <00a801c61d10$699e6bb0$0401a8c0@Mike8500> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help backing up to networked drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:01:30 -0000 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