Hi all,
I am trying to rsync some documents on to a samba share on a mybook world edition device. My source machine is a laptop running Ubuntu 9.04. However I keep getting various errors and try as I might I have not been able to get this to work.

I mounted the mybook share on my Ubuntu laptop using the following command -
sudo mount -t cifs 192.168.1.110:TEST test -o username=myusername,uid=1000,gid=1000

the mybook share on samba is defined as -

[TEST]
path=/shares/internal/TEST
read only = no
guest ok = no
valid users=myusername
write list=myusername

the rsync command I am using is -
rsync -avz ~/junk test/

where junk is a folder on my laptop that I would like to backup. I get the following message when I run the above command -

junk/
rsync: failed to set times on "/home/me/test/junk": Invalid argument (22)
junk/bar
junk/foo
rsync: mkstemp "/home/me/test/junk/.bar.iuj8as" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: mkstemp "/home/me/test/junk/.foo.PTOh4m" failed: Permission denied (13)

sent 75633 bytes received 54 bytes 151374.00 bytes/sec
total size is 439153 speedup is 5.80
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1058) [sender=3.0.5]



The biggest frustration is that I can mount these shares in an XP box and run synctoy and it works fine, but my linux boxes don't play well. I can copy but I can not rsync (with -a)

I don't know if it helps but uname -a on the mybook gives this -

Linux MyBook1 2.6.17.14 #1 PREEMPT Fri Jan 18 10:40:25 GMT 2008 armv5tejl GNU/Linux

Any help to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.

rsync only works on filesystems with hardlinks. So if the filesystem you are trying to copy to is FAT,NTFS (or HFS), I don't think it is going to work.

Well the target is some flavor of Linux (see uname output above) and the partition with the shared folder is ext3.

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