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Hi, trying to mount on demand, external USB drive which is /bkup. /etc/fstab has it as: ?UUID=4C76D06176D04CF8 /bkup?????? ntfs-3g?? noauto,user,rw??? 0?????? 0 The following does open a share but its not really /bkup and its not writeable. Corrections are welcome. Thanks. [backup_drive] ??????? preexec = /bin/mount /bkup ??????? comment = Backup Drive ??????? path = /bkup ??????? writable = yes ??????? postexec = /bin/umount /bkup If /bkup is mounted then the above share works from Windows or Unix clients. Thing is, wanted it to only mount when actually needed. --------------...

Hi, I bought an USB external hdd (500GB) to make my backups using dump... but, sometimes my sever recognize the hdd device /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc... my question is: How can I assign a fixed device for example /dev/sdc to my hdd? remember I use some scripts to do my backup and I am getting errors because the device changes from sdb to sdc and thanks in advance Israel

...getting "permission denied" errors when trying to read certain files from those shares. A typical operation might look like this: server:~# mount -t smbfs -o username="\\LCLDOMAIN\backup",password="password" //workstation/share /mnt/backup server:~# tar jcvf /mnt/backup_drive/workstation.tar.bz2 /mnt/backup The backup user has the SeBackupPrivilege right set, which to my understanding should allow it read-access to every file on those shares...? server:~# net rpc rights list backup Password: SeBackupPrivilege I'd love to know what I'm doing wrong. Have...