Help backing up to networked drive
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Thu Jan 19 08:01:30 PST 2006
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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