Help backing up to networked drive

[Chuck Swiger]

Mike Loiterman wrote:
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> 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....

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-Chuck