[Sheflug] More stupid questions...SMB and tar

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

 OK.

 I`ve sort of got Samba going (just before I kill my only functioning Linux
box...) but how do I go about accessing the files on the Windoze machine, other
than smbclient (the ftp-like samba program)?

 And is there any way to print to a printer connected to a Windoze machine (an
HP Deskjet if it makes the slightest bit of difference)?

 Also, since "man tar" scares the bejesus out of me, could anyone tell me how to
do the following:

 (a) Mash up whole directories, maintaining structure, permissions and ownership
and then gzip the lot for backup (preferably without an intermediate tar - so I
don`t have 2 or 3 versions of my data in various stages of compression on one
disk - many, many Gb!!)

 (b) Mash up files into a tar, any old way, as I can dig the files out again (to
fetch a bunch of my files from a remote server)

 (c) Un-mash everything above back onto my system.


 This weekend is not gonna be fun. *Sob*

 Baz.
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Barrie J. Bremner

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