Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 18:22:40 -0800 (PST) From: Evgeny Roubinchtein <eroubinc@u.washington.edu> To: "Michael G." <mikegoe@ibm.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Parallel tape drive backup Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.05.9901041820040.53974-100000@dante38.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199901042138.VAA110744@out4.ibm.net>
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On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Michael G. wrote: >I've got three systems on my home LAN, One has my FreeBSD >3.0-RELEASE and another, with a seagate parallel tape drive >is running Win98. So, before I spend all the time and >effort (which I dont have), is it possible to use the win >box to backup my FreeBSD partitions? (I'm certain FreeBSD >still doesnt' support parallel tape drive..at least it >didn't)... Use samba to make the FreeBSD files visible to Win98? (read-only should do it for backup, I think). There was a thread earlier on Win98 requiring encrypted passwords, so you either have to set up Samba to use them or edit Win98 registry to allow plaintext passwords (The thread was under the title "What has Bill Gates done to us now?", or some such). HTH -- Evgeny Roubinchtein, eroubinc@u.washington.edu ................... Knowledge is like a river, the deeper it is the less noise it makes. -DJ Bryant To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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