On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:19 PM, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux <<a href="mailto:i-ubux@synass.net">i-ubux@synass.net</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Booting the system this morning the first time this external TCP/IP HDD shows up properly with a FTP folder on desktop as <a href="http://192.168.144.140" target="_blank">192.168.144.140</a> ;-D I am able too to create and manipulate folders ;-)) So, optimistically I tried rsync to get a first backup to that unit with the following result: sna@WS222:~$ sudo rsync -av --progress /home/sna/ smb://<a href="http://192.168.144.140/Backup/710_804" target="_blank">192.168.144.140/Backup/710_804</a> ssh: smb: Name or service not known rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(454) [sender=2.6.9] sna@WS222:~$ </blockquote></div> Here are some suggestions: 1. replace "smb:" with "ftp:" It does support ftp, right? 2. Try using "smb4k" to see if you can see the drive. Remember, SMB is more complicated. There may be a user name, a password, a workgroup/domain associated with it. You won't know until you have connected via SMB. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own