Re: [BackupPC-users] Issue with SMB and "My Documents" folder?

Hi Jim,
   Interesting - thanks!  I tried that and it worked...    Thanks for
all the suggestions.

--
Craig.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Jim Kyle <jim AT jimkyle DOT com> wrote:
> On Thursday, October 14, 2010, at 12:53:24 PM, Craig A wrote:
>
>> Thanks very much - appreciate the info.   I've looked at your
>> examples and I'm still having issues.
>
> The SMB protocol seems to be a moving target; things that were working for
> me a year ago have quit working after updates to the Samba packages. This
> has nothing to do with BackupPC itself, but adds to the issues.
>
> A solution that now works for me, to access Windows folders that have
> spaces in their names such as "My Documents," is to go into Windows'
> sharing configuration dialogs and make such folders into separate shares.
> For the "Share as" edit box when doing so, I put "MyDocs" or something
> similar, with no embedded space and a name that's slightly different from
> what Windows uses. This makes that folder appear as an entire separate
> share to other systems, and bypasses all the problems of embedded spaces.
> It can also solve permissions problems, since you can set permissions for
> the share that can differ from those that Windows assigns to the folder
> (which was actually the reason I came up with this approach in the first
> place).
>
> Then in the BackupPC configuration file, use the new share name instead of
> the original, and include "*" from it instead of giving the actual path
> names all over again (or if you only want to back up specific files and
> sub-folders you can list them).
>
> --
> Jim Kyle
> mailto:jim AT jimkyle DOT com
>
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