Syncing Linux FS to Windows

[Moby]

Tobias Speckbacher wrote:

>sure if you want to smbmount across the internet you could choose to do that ... whatever floats your boat
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>"What I want to be able to do is sync My Documents from the Windows box
>at work onto the Linux box at home on an hourly bi-daily basis."
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Ed Greshko
>Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 7:49 PM
>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>Subject: Re: Syncing Linux FS to Windows
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>Tobias Speckbacher wrote:
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>>You could install cygwin and use rsync.
>>seems to be an rsync day today :)
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>And as recently pointed out....
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>You can simply smbmount the XP file system locally and use rsync without 
>the need for cygwin.  Yes?
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>>-T
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Brian D. McGrew
>>Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 6:08 PM
>>To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>>Subject: Syncing Linux FS to Windows
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>>At work I have my XP Pro box that works fine complete with my personal
>>My Documents folder and all is controlled by a 2000 Domain Controller
>>running Active Directory.  We have three T1's at work.
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>>At home I've got a few Windows boxes controlled by my Linux box using
>>Samba.  All the Windows boxes think that the Linux box is a NT server
>>and Windows is quite happy with the roaming profiles that I've setup and
>>remote shares.  I have a cable modem at home pull an average of 4MB
>>down.
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>>What I want to be able to do is sync My Documents from the Windows box
>>at work onto the Linux box at home on an hourly bi-daily basis.  Of
>>course to get all the data home initially I could create a zip file but
>>then to keep everything updated is another story.
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>>What would you guys recommend for this?  And of course I have full
>>access to the network at work from home.
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>>Thanks,
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>>-brian
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>>Brian D. McGrew        { brian at doubledimension.com ||
>>brian at visionpro.com }
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smbmount to access the file system, then unison to do the 
synchronization.  Works like a charm.

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--Moby

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