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by Sébastien Lorquet :: Rate this Message:

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nice trick :)

thanks for sharing!

sebastien

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 6:10 PM, maisondouf <maisondouf@...> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I need sometimes to backup some litle files via internet , so I use vsftpd
> on my Nslu2 and with it, I can write into my home dir.
>
> But I would write these files into a samba shared dir and so give access to
> them for PC under windows.
>
> After a very long reflexion, I choose a very simple solution:
>
> I create a sub dir in my home dir: *'/home/toto/newdir'* and with samba I
> mount the shared dir *'shareddir'* on this new dir with :
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> *'smbmount //localhost/shareddir /home/toto/newdir'
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> *The 'newdir' now show the contents of the 'shareddir' and this with write
> permissions
>
> Vsftpd does'nt see anything... and now peoples at home can use immediatly
> the files I have backuped.
> Bye
>
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