On 06/08/2009 01:28:53 PM, H.S. wrote:
Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 06/08/2009 11:26:01 AM, H.S. wrote:
>>
>> Any ideas how I get around this problem?
Nice tips, and it appears they make sense. However, please pardon my
ignorance, I am not sure I fully understand:
These are sort of "this or that" choices.
> a) Don't do that. Have the uid/gids be the same on the MS
> and Debian sides.
You mean preserve the the uid/gids on the Debian side so that they are
the same as they were on the XP machine?
Right, and set the ids manually when you make the users on
the Debian side.
> b) Use --numeric-ids in the rsync script and after it finishes
> use find -uid and chown to change the uids to the "right" value.
> (Likewise for gids.)
>From rsync's man page, --numeric-ids will preserve the numeric ids
across transfers. So, it appears that I am on the right track in (a)
above. But what should I change these ids to on the Debian side? If
the
ids are preserved, shouldn't that be fine for the following step as
well?
Yup.
Since all I require is that the users on XP be able to browse
their own backups on Debian (which, as you wrote in (c), should be
accomplished using samba).
You don't have to use samba, it's just nice for MS Windows users.
FYI, somebody must have done this before so there's probably a
best-practices on the net, somewhere.
Karl <k...@meme.com>
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