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Hi, This is probably a newbie question, but here goes. I am using samba to mount some windows box's hard drives to a linux box for the purpose of doing backups on the windows boxes. This is done late at night and I am SURE that no one is using the windows boxes.... While backing up I often see tar complain as follows: "tar: IssRating/C4dll.dll: file changed as we read it" or

...users 4096 Jun 24 16:07 ./ drwx--x--x 5 dpsims users 4096 Jun 24 16:12 ../ dpsims at linux:~/.ssh$ I see that there is no known_hosts file in this subdirectory, but why doesn't ssh create one?? I'm stumped. Any clues would be very welcome. Regards, Dave Sims dpsims at virtualdave.com

Hi, I want to implement a small network using Win 2k and Samba... I only want to create a Windows 'workgroup' and to use user level security with plaintext passwords... Just trying to keep things very simple.... I have implemented Samba 2.2.4 on Slackware Linux 7.1 .... Using a minimal smb.conf: [global] workgroup = bentley netbios name = blackie server string = This is Linux/Samba