Samba and NTFS,Does this really work? I have the drive maped but I am weary. I need to tar all the windows dir and then I'll rsync them to an offsite server. Will directorys with spaces in the names cause problems?

If someone could help me with a script that would tar some dirs and name the tar with a date that would be most helpful. I'll only keep four of them on hand and then delete the other three.

Would tar or gunzip be better?

Also the computer that I am rsyncing these to is a nix with maped NTFS drives. The files will end up on the NTFS share.

Will all of this work?

If you mean can you read/write to a Windows share through Samba, the answer is yes regardless if the share is on an NTFS partition or not. Linux is not involved in any actual write to the disk, Windows does that same way it does if it were 2 Windows machines involved. Works the other way as well, even though Windows can't even read a Linux partition natively, it can read/write to it via a Samba share. This of course assumes you have the share set it correctly and are allowing writes to it.

Thats what I was thinking. What about folders with spaces in the names?

I have a question that is related to this somewhat.
My linux box stores a Microsoft file and two windows machines share. Intermittently when my wife accesses this file the attributes change to 644 and I cannot open and vice-versa. I have to go in as root and chmod 777 the file. There does not seem to be a specific pattern as to when the attributes change. Any ideas?

you need to lock group owner ship and add both of you to the group.

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