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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!decwrl!enews.sgi.com!sgigate.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov!netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov!usenet From: lim@telerobotics.jpl.nasa.gov (David Lim) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc Subject: Re: Want to backup FreeBSD from NT ? Read This! Date: 24 Apr 1996 12:03:17 -0700 Organization: JPL Lines: 12 Sender: lim@surf.jpl.nasa.gov Message-ID: <s47mv5a1hm.fsf@surf.jpl.nasa.gov> References: <aak2.829444166@Ra.MsState.Edu> <4l3nvp$s5n@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> Reply-To: lim@robotics.jpl.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: surf.jpl.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: jaitken@csugrad.cs.vt.edu's message of 17 Apr 1996 17:31:37 -0400 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc:103022 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18120 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc:9277 I too, would like to backup NT to a UNIX machine (I'm running Solaris 2.5). I've been playing around with using smbtar in the SAMBA distribution to do this. This has pretty much worked except for one problem: I can not bypass file security on the NT machine. I created a user on the NT machine called "backup" which is in the "Backup Operators" group. According to the "User Manager for Domains", this group should be able to bypass file security to backup files. However, the user "backup" is not able to read the files whose permissions do not allow "backup" to read the files when I use smbtar. I am contemplating just setting all files on the system to be readable by "backup".