Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > 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.
Thanks for all these pointers. I think you have given me sufficient information to search for this on google and try out various options. Regards. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
