Hi,
Well, I haven't tried anything yet or made any decisions but I think I
have the answer I need. SAMBA! (address below)
My original Post:
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I have a network setup where there are several pc's running windows 3.1
and some running os/2. There is also a Sun Sparc10 running sunos 4.1.3.
This machine has an 8mm tape drive connected which I would like to use
to back up the pc's data also.
All of the pc's have netowrk connectivity thru ethernet but none connect
specifically to the sun workstation except thru telnet.
What are my options (for both windows and OS/2) in order to back up the
pc data on the sun machine's tape drive? I have heard a bit about PCNFS
from sun and would be willing to try that but does it support OS/2 and
will it let a pc use a sun tapedrive?
Any other options? I am aware that FTP's PCTCP has a tar utility but it
is rather expensive. I will need to connect several pc's to one sun
workstation (we have a special site price thru cornell for pcnfspro so
it's pretty cheap).
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Thanks to:
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"Chris Phillips" <chris@platform.com>
Checkout SAMBA and SAMBATAR... at ftp://nimbus.anu.edu.au
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davem@cp.tybrin.com (Dave McFerren)
I have just loaded SAMBA, a free utility to share files and printers
from pc's to unix boxes. IT'S GREAT. And it doesn't cost a dime. I
had it set up in about 3 hours and I am sharing files from solaris to a
Windows95 pc. I have also read that it does a good job in sharing with
OS/2, and can be set up to do backups across the net for any pc.
Look up SAMBA on the web. I think their home page is at
They even have binaries already compiled for almost any architecture.
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Wis Macomson <wis@sequent.com>
You might want to check out SAMBA ('archie samba'). It lets MS
boxes use Unix filesystems as "drives". I believe that it is
running on this Sequent PTX system.
I think that it allows peripheral sharing also.
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Michael Baumann <baumann@proton.llumc.edu>
Kind of.. more like, let the sun mount the PC drive and tape it that
way. Check into SaMBa, a SMB package that is freely available for the
Sun (and other UNIX) platform. There are patches to allow taring of
a shared drive this way.
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"Marks, Evan R" <markser@AETNA.com>
ake a look at legato's backup software... It will work across the
platforms you have
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Mike Varney <mlv03@health.state.ny.us>
Sun has another product, Solstice Backup, which supposedly lets you back
your PCs up right to a UNIX tape drive.
What we do is use PCNFS and back up our PCs to a file in a specific
directory tree - then we back up that directory to tape using normal
"dump"
commands.
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Srivatsan Rajagopal <sriraj@eel.ufl.edu>
I have tried Samba, which implements the SMB protocol (Netbios) for
Unix.
It basically, is a PC-NFS server and is a freeware downloadable from :
nimbus.anu.edu.au/pub/tridge/samba/. It has worked quite well and has a
utility "smbtar" to directly tar shared file systems onto the remote
unix tape drive. I have used it with Windows and am unaware of its
compatibility to OS2 environment.
I believe pcnfspro should also be capable of doing this.
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Matthew Stier - Imonics Corporation <matthew.stier@imonics.com>
smbtar
An application in the SAMBA suite.
http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/samba.html
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"Walter Reed" <walt@caligari.com>
There are commercial options like Legato Networker (www.legato.com)
but you will find them quite expensive.
Another option is to use something like Samba which allows UNIX
systems to be a peer on MS Windows for Workgroups networks (Samba is
freeware.) Then you can just mount your PC file systems on unix and
back them up that way.
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