rsync to synchronize to a XP Computer.

[Matthew Flaschen]

Kipton Moravec wrote:
>> Indeed, that is not valid.  rsync can do "local" copies, and it can copy
>> from your computer to a remote host running an rsync server.  "Local"
>> means here that the source and destination are both part of mounted
>> filesystems on your machine.  If you use smbfs (apt-get install smbfs)
>> you can mount smb://main/c/backupw so it appears as a local filesystem.
>>  So then it would be something like:
>>
>> sudo mkdir /mnt/my_smb_mount
>>
>> sudo mount.cifs //main/c/backupw /mnt/my_smb_mount -o username=myusername
>>
> Tried this and got error message 
> 
> sudo: mount.cifs: command not found
> 
> Is something missing in the line?

As I said, you need to first do:

sudo apt-get install smbfs

Best,

Matt Flaschen