[Novalug] backup mysql files to windows via samba

[Michael Madore]

Hi Norman,

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Norman Bird <steelpulsefan at gmail.com> wrote:
> so in my case where my samba server destination file is  \\merlin2\download
>
> I should do:
> # mount -t smbfs -o username=myname,password=mypassword,rw
> //merlin2/download /mnt/merlin2
>
> am i right or am i right? :-)

Assuming that 'download' is the name of the share on your Windows
machine.  You can see what shares are available using the smbclient
command:

# smbclient -U myname -L //merlin2

Mike