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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@portsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: share a drive under win95? Date: 4 Jun 1997 19:57:00 GMT Organization: Portland Software Lines: 38 Message-ID: <01bc7121$6f0095a0$6601a8c0@teds.portsoft.com> References: <buzzardw.865342128@tempermental> NNTP-Posting-Host: necproxy.portsoft.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!news.flex.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.easystreet.com!not-for-mail Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42389 Bryce Buzzard <buzzardw@tempermental.cbl.umces.edu> wrote in article <buzzardw.865342128@tempermental>... > Is it possible for me to share a bsd drive under win95 or vice-versa so that > I can back up both my win95 machine and my freeBSD box?? I have the dat > drive, but I'm not sure which machine I should install it in. Anyone ever > have a similar situation arise?? > While you can map drives back and forth using Samba, this doesen't address backing up under Win95, since you cannot access the Registry this way, and you may have problems with long filenames. FreeBSD has a very good native backup program, Dump, as well as GNU Tar. Win95, on the other hand, has no native SCSI backup program (for your DAT drive) so whatever you do you going to have to supplement Win95 with a decent backup program. With this in mind you should look for a backup program that can run under Win95 and send the data over the network to your tapedrive that is connected to your Unix machine, using the standard rmt calls. There is a shareware Win95 version of tar, ftp://papa.indstate.edu/winsock-l/Windows95/Misc-Winsock/rtar220u.zip which will run under Win95 and send the TAR data to your Unix machine this way. You might try this, or try looking at another commercial Win95 backup program. I don't think you would be satisfied trying to go the other way round - sending the data from the Unix machine to your Win95 machine - as I think you will find that Win95 doesen't make a very satisfactory server platform, and will probably crash halfway through the backup. Ted