Re: Best way to keep a Linux and an XP directory synced

From: Aurélien Campéas (aurelien.campeas_at_uni.lu)
Date: 04/08/05

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    To: Bob Alexander <bob@ngi.it>
    Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 19:32:15 +0200
    
    

    Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 à 19:18 +0200, Bob Alexander a écrit :
    > I'd rather avoid using MS folders shares and use some more "standard" way.

    I assume you've got 2 machines (one XP, one debian)

    >
    > Would rsync (server on Linux) be a good idea ?

    good, but "rsync server" is not needed

    >
    > Better options ?

    consider a combination of autofs + smbfs + rsync (the last being invoked
    periodically by cron)

    that's what I've just set up there (at work) and it's very nice

    but you HAVE to export shares from the XP host

    >
    > TIA,
    > Bob
    >
    >
    You get along very well with everyone except animals and people.

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