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Re: areca backup folder to samba shared folder



On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:12:17 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:

> 2012/6/26 Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:06:55 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
>>
>>> I found that on my Debian amd64 laptop (have not tried 32-bit version
>>> yet) that I cannot set mounted samba shared folder as local folder.
>>> But this can be done on Windows 2003 & Windows 7.
>>>
>>> Any workaround? Or maybe I had missed a thing or two?
>>
>> Uh? Yes, you should can :-?
>>
>> How did you setup the samba share local folder? IIRC, you have to use
>> cifs (mount -t cifs ...). Once you have check the manual mount point is
>> nicely done and works as you want you can add the samba share to your
>> "/ etc/fstab" so it gets mounted on every boot.
> 
> maybe it cannot be used because i use nautilus to mount the samba share
> folder instead of command line?

To use Areca Backup I recall that you needed a samba volume mounted 
locally, yes. If Nautilus is accesing the share via "smb://" the trick 
does not work (in fact, that's one of the reasons I stopped using Areca's 
solution :-) )

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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