Could you clarify a few things? "my PC" = a winxp machine? Partitions on this winxp machine are not big enough to hold /home from the linux server. Correct? Which side do you want to initiate the transfer from? If it's going to a scheduled backup, then is your xp machine constantly powered up? <humor>If it's constantly powered up, how do u manage to run anything on it besides notepad?</humor> Pastor Doug Coats wrote: > By the way... > > If anyone knows another way I could accomplish the same thing without using > Smbmount I am open to suggestions. > > All I want is for Linux to copy the dump of the /home directory over onto my > PC. Here's the catch. None of the partitions on the server are large > enough to hold a full backup of the /home directory. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list