[Sussex] RE: Sussex Digest, Vol 177, Issue 5

Paul reality at dsl.pipex.com
Sat Feb 17 01:17:08 UTC 2007


Alan_Perry at amat.com wrote:
> 
> To All
> 
> Having been a member of this mail list for a long time I have learnt a 
> lot, but now I need some advice. But to show where I'm coming from....
> 
> Long long ago ( early 90's) I used a Unix system as part of a Test Rig 
> and I did the compilation of tweaked files etc and backed it up to tape.
> (This was really handle turning but as a 20 year old it was a bit of a
> buzz)
> 
> Then came the long years in the wilderness....
> 
> For the last couple of years I have been using DSL (versions 2 and 3) 
> on an old 300Mhz 586 to get my hand in.
> The DSL boot cd has been a great help in wipping XP off my colleages 
> PC's when they had video / mother board driver issues (and needed to 
> re-install XP...) Now I'm running Suse 10.2 on a seperate HDD on my 
> home PC ( I love Multi Boot BIOS)
> 
> Now the problem I have.
> I am responsible test rigs with PCs running NT or XP (There is one 
> running Windows 3.0, but the least said the better....) The short of 
> it is I want to attach a Lap top to the Rigs and back up the files. I 
> was given a solution by our IT department, but it was unreliable.
> 
> Now I have found using a Router has been very successfull way of  
> maping drives and copying files etc.
> 
> What I would prefer is to do away with the Router and use a cross over 
> lead. Is this possible?
> 
> I would like a boot cd for the laptop that starts samba , a dchp 
> server and lets the rig connect to the Laptop HDD. is this possible?

> The only problem appears to be the Laptop runs XP, it seems to have 
> been an issue in the past, but things do move on...
> 
> regards, Alan
> 

Alan,

Use our BackTrack live CD - V2 due out v.soon. NTFS writing good. (
www.remote-exploit.org )

Or, if the NTFS rw access is a big concern, you know there are winblows live
cd's too.

I don't know what type of router you have been using, but have you
considered attaching one of those routers with built-in ftp/samba server,
that also accept USB HDD (and usually scheduled file "download" (remote or
local backup) from LAN or WAN, too).
You could leave one of these in place on the LAN and instantly access your
SMB shares for backing up whenever you want, from pretty much any platform.

Paul.







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